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Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz is a United States Senator from Texas, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz gained national prominence during his 2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He is known for his conservative positions on issues such as healthcare, immigration, and tax reform. Cruz has been a vocal advocate for limited government and has often positioned himself as a defender of constitutional rights.

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Jan 13, 2014

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

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Jan 13, 2014

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

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Jan 13, 2014

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

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Jan 13, 2014

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…

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Jan 13, 2014

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

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Jan 13, 2014

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…

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Jan 13, 2014

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

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Jan 13, 2014

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…

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Jan 6, 2014

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.

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Jan 6, 2014

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

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Dec 22, 2013

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

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Dec 10, 2013

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

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