Ted Cruz actually said...

"I have spent much of my adult life working in law enforcement and emphatically agree that law enforcement should be vigorous going after violent crime."

"Sadly, we know that some in our political process have a desire to exploit that tragic, violent incident for agendas that have nothing to do with that young man who lost his life."

"We do know that there was a violent altercation between an Hispanic man and an African American teenager, and we know that at the end of that confrontation, the teenager was dead."

"But we also know that the subject of this hearing, the 'stand your ground' laws, was not a defense that Mr. Zimmerman raised."