Ted Cruz

Well, and I think that underscores that my concern that the focus of the programs has been far too much on law-abiding citizens and far too little on people for whom we have significant reason to believe there may be a real danger of…

We need to expand our authority to track known targets of counterterrorism when they first enter the United States.

I am concerned that the sweep of the surveillance has been far too broad with respect to law-abiding citizens.

And is it the judgment of the commission that if the data were kept in private hands of the phone companies that already possess the data legally, that that would do nothing to undermine the efficacy of the program preventing potentially…

It simply takes the government looking to what he is saying publicly and loudly before that terrorist attack is carried out.

I think a great many Americans have concerns about the current state of NSA surveillance.

A couple of weeks ago Senator Sanders wrote a letter to the NSA asking if the NSA, quote, has spied or is the NSA currently spying on Members of Congress or other American elected officials, and the NSA's response to that was Members of…

The government dropped the ball, and they carried out yet another horrific terrorist attack.

I am concerned, on the one hand, that the Federal Government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

So this sets a horrible new standard, I think, in our historic annals in terms of the amount of mayhem and tragedy that can be spread in a couple years.

The United States should always be a clarion voice for freedom and a voice against the oppression of the innocent.

Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam, I am. I do not like green eggs and ham.

Pope Francis has been named 'Time' magazine's 'Person of the Year.'

The burdens of Obamacare, and they are having difficulties.

It is extremely important to look at the regulatory environment and that you would enthusiastically work to identify those regulations that could be either streamlined or repealed to allow for the private sector to generate economic growth.

But do you think that people should be able to keep the plans that they have now and that they like?

By its definition, the 'stand your ground' law does not apply to aggressors.

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.

In my view, that is utterly indefensible.

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.

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

Imagine after the House Republicans stood together with the American people, if all 46 Senate Republicans have stood together and said, we are united against the train wreck that is Obamacare.

Why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial?

Government will always continue to grow and freedom in America will always recede.