Ted Cruz in Survey of 2016 Presidential campaign websites
On Foreign Policy:
Countries aspire to be like America, the exceptional nation
The United States of America is the exceptional nation, the nation other countries aspire to be like. We should stand as a shining beacon of what free people enjoying a free market & system of government can achieve. But while our intentions towards the
rest of the world are peaceful, that does not mean we have no enemies, and the fact of the matter is our enemies are on the march.Two terms of the disastrous Obama-Clinton foreign policy have had one useful effect: we now know what the world starts to
look like without America. The next president will have to start on day one rebuilding what they have tried to tear down. A truly conservative foreign policy would have three simple principles:
- To preserve our country we need to exert leadership
on the global stage, not withdraw from it.
- We need to fiercely defend our allies and interests.
- And we need to judge each challenge through the simple test of what is best for America. Because what is best for America is best for the world.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
On Government Reform:
Current administration defies Constitution and rule of law
Our nation's founding document and the supreme law of the land was crafted by our founding fathers to act as chains to bind the mischief of government and to protect the liberties endowed to us by our Creator.
Unfortunately, recent administrations have defied the Constitution and the rule of law, and as a result we are less free. We need to restore the Constitution as our standard.
We need to protect the people by rolling back the federal government to the functions the Constitution sets out. We need to give power back to the states and the people so that we remain a land where liberty can flourish.
Ted Cruz has spent a lifetime fighting to defend the Constitution: 70 Supreme Court briefs authored; 9 arguments in the Supreme Court.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
On Government Reform:
Authored 70 Supreme Court briefs & argued 9 cases
Ted Cruz has spent a lifetime fighting to defend the Constitution: 70 Supreme Court briefs authored; 9 arguments in the Supreme Court.Stood for Americans' First Amendment rights against Democrats who sought to repeal our free speech rights.-
Defended Hobby Lobby against Obamacare's contraception mandate.
- Fought and won a landmark victory at the Supreme Court in Medellin v. Texas; protected US sovereignty against 90 foreign nations and the president to ensure the US is not subject to
rulings of the "World Court."
- Led the way to preserve the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument, winning a 5-4 landmark decision.
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Successfully defended the Texas schools' moment of silence law in federal district court.
- Galvanized national support for Houston pastors who had been subpoenaed by the City of Houston and forced to turn in their sermons.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
On Homeland Security:
Provide our veterans the care they have been promised
- Ted Cruz is committed to honoring our veterans, and providing them the care they have been promised.
- The mismanagement in the VA is unacceptable. We should expand options for our
service members' health care so they have more choices and more immediate service.
- A Cruz administration will bring more accountability to the VA and provide greater options for our veterans.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
On Immigration:
Bar refugees from terrorist-ridden regions
Border security is national security. Cruz introduced two bills to protect Americans from an influx of refugees who could be a national security risk, including legislation barring refugees from terrorist-ridden regions
and legislation to recognize governors' authority to protect the citizens in their states by rejecting to resettle refugees in their state.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
On War & Peace:
U.S.-Israel alliance is a strategic bedrock
We must make clear to the world that the U.S.-Israel alliance is once again a strategic bedrock for the United States.- America's security is significantly enhanced by a strong Israel. Israel has been, is, and always will be the Middle East bulwark
in defense of the West.
- A Cruz administration will on day one recognize Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of Israel and the US embassy will be moved to Israel's capital city.
- A Cruz administration will continue to support
Israel's regional qualitative military edge and make sure that Israel has everything it needs to defend itself.
- We should strengthen our partnership with Israel by supporting cooperative efforts such as missile defense to counter terrorism.
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A President Cruz will immediately reassess US policy towards the Palestinian Authority. Not one penny of American tax dollars should go to an organization that incites hatred against Jews and seeks to partner with the terrorist group Hamas.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website TedCruz.org
Mar 15, 2016
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