Ted Cruz

In recent years, the Senate has allowed our oversight muscles to atrophy. Oversight rarely occurs in our standing committees, and I believe our country is worse off for it. … It’s a front where I will continue to lead as chairman.

This situation, I believe, poses acute risks for U.S. national security.

This situation, I believe, posts acute risks for U.S. national security.

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The TAKE IT DOWN Act would require tech and social media platforms to remove CSAM and non-consensual intimate images within 48 hours.

No one should have to experience the pain, humiliation, and trauma that so many Americans have at the hands of AI deepfakes.

I am looking forward to a robust discussion with @FLOTUS. My bill, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, passed unanimously in the Senate with a 100-0 vote. This crucial legislation will protect ALL Americans, especially teenagers and young women. We need…

Would criminalize the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (or ‘deepfake pornography’)

This is not normal. Today's Democrats hate democracy.

You know my view of lizards? They make dern fine boots.

I think, for this to happen, you would have to have a referendum in Greenland, and I think, the Greenlanders, if they saw those benefits, there's a very good chance they would vote, 'hell yes, I want to be an American.'

Everything's for sale.

If Greenland became an American territory, they would become American citizens. That is an incredibly valuable inducement.

There are strong national security and economic reasons why it makes a lot of sense.

It’s not a mystery there's no love lost.

It's early to worry about politics in a race two years away.

The precedent of the president picking and choosing what laws to follow is a dangerous precedent.

You know my view of lizards? They make dern fine boots.

Unless there was a compelling national security reason for turning it off, that does not seem justified and in this instance, this was a training mission so there was no national security reason for ADS-B to be turned off.

I will welcome them doing the right thing. I will welcome them defending free speech. That’s what they need to do.

As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, my approach is going to be Ronald Reagan’s old approach of trust, but verify. I’m going to hold them to account. We’re going to fight to defend Americans’ free speech rights.

I believe Big Tech censorship poses the single greatest threat to free speech in this country, and the committee will use every available tool to engage in that oversight.

I think those are certainly fair questions to ask.

The Take It Down Act does two things.

I think it has done unbelievable damage to the integrity of the Department of Justice and the FBI.