Ted Cruz in Speeches at 2015=2016 Values Voters Summit

On Environment: Take on EPA and agencies that strangle small businesses

Some of you may be thinking, "that makes common sense to me. Live within your means. Don't bankrupt our grandkids. Follow the Constitution. But can it be done?"

I think where we are today is very much like the late 1970s. Same failed economic policies. Same misery, stagnation and malaise. The same feckless and naive foreign policies. In fact, the exact same countries: Russia and Iran, openly mocking the President of the United States. Why is it that analogy gives me so much hope and optimism? Because we know how that story ended: millions of men and women rose up and became the Reagan Revolution.

On Foreign Policy: Greatest threat facing America is nuclear Iran

If I am elected president, let me tell you what I'll do on the first day in office.
• The first thing is rescind every single illegal and unconstitutional Executive Action.
• The second thing I intend to do is to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood and these horrible videos, and to prosecute any and all criminal conduct by that organization.
• The third thing office is to instruct the IRS and every other federal agency that the persecution of religious liberty ends TODAY!
• The fourth thing is to rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal. The single greatest national security threat facing America is the threat of a nuclear Iran. If you vote for me, under no circumstances will a nation led by a theocratic Ayatollah, who chants 'Death to America,' under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
• The fifth thing I intend to do on the first day is begin the process of moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

On Principles & Values: Religious liberty: Don't lock up Christians like Kim Davis

Kim Davis is here. Just a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Kim in a Kentucky jailhouse. A year ago, if I had come and said that a Christian woman was going to be locked up in jail for living her faith, the media would have dismissed me as a nutcase. That's where we are today. Kim and I embraced, and I told her, 'Kim, you are inspiring millions across this country by standing for your faith.' What I told Kim is that you are being lifted up in prayer by millions of believers. You may have thought you were alone in that jail cell, but you didn't understand how crowded it was. And Kim smiled and pointed up and said 'to God be the glory.'