Ted Cruz: “There are strong national security and economic reasons why it makes a lot of sense.”

Economically, I think we should be a conservative party, and on foreign policy, we’ve got a debate: Are we an isolationist party that withdraws from the world, or do we believe in American leadership?

We’re seeing the Democrat Party taken over by communists and by Islamists.

Going forward, we’re in the midst of a debate about who our party is and what we believe, and I think economically we’ve got to debate, ‘Are we a small-government, free-market conservative party? Are we a big-government, nanny-state party?

It was actually political genius.