Ted Cruz in Speeches at CPAC (2020s)


On Budget & Economy: I am bullish on crypto & bitcoin; it is decentralized

We need to decentralize. We need to break it apart. It is one of the reasons why I am so bullish on crypto, on bitcoin. It is decentralized and not controllable. That is why China recently banned bitcoin. They can't control it which is the same reason Elizabeth Warren hates bitcoin. The Chinese Communists and Elizabeth Warren both want to control you: your savings, your speech, your children. Every decision they want to control. We need to break up the means of controlling the citizenry.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL Feb 24, 2022

On Civil Rights: Worship however you like; that's the beauty of freedom

The message of liberty is profoundly subversive. The left believes in rigid conformity. We believe in diversity, free speech. You can say whatever you want no matter how dumb it is. And by the way, in Washington DC, we test that proposition. Religious liberty, you can worship however you like on your knees before Almighty God or you could worship the almighty dollar or you can worship, I don't know, pink martians. That's the beauty of freedom.
Source: Remarks by Senator Cruz at 2021 CPAC Conference Feb 26, 2021

On Gun Control: No rioters came to Houston because of Second Amendment

When we saw riots all across the country, I remember there were reports that riots were going to come into. Mostly peaceful, fiery, but mostly peaceful. There were reports, riots were going to come into the suburbs. I got to tell you, in Houston, where I live, there weren't any rioters. Because, let's be very clear, if there had been, they would discover what the state of Texas thinks about the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Source: Remarks by Senator Cruz at 2021 CPAC Conference Feb 26, 2021

On Homeland Security: Protecting US Capitol is "political theater"

The US Capitol has giant fences with razor wires and 5,000 National Guard standing out front because the Democrats are convinced that political theater helps them. Let's be clear, this is not about security at this point. This is about political theater. Half the country, the deplorables, are dangerous, and they're going to turn the Capitol into a military outpost in Baghdad just to have their compliant media echo that message.
Source: Remarks by Senator Cruz at 2021 CPAC Conference Feb 26, 2021

On Principles & Values: Liberty is under assault from the hard left; we will fight

We are gathered in dark times. We're gathered at a time where the hard left, where the socialists control the levers of government, where they control the White House, where they control every executive branch, where they control both houses of Congress. Bernie is wearing mittens, and AOC is telling us she was murdered. And the media desperately, desperately, desperately wants to see a Republican civil war. Liberty is under assault, and what are we going to do? I'll tell you, we will fight.
Source: Remarks by Senator Cruz at 2021 CPAC Conference Feb 26, 2021

On Principles & Values: Big is bad across-the board, Big Government sucks

Let me suggest a simple principle for conservatives to understand. Big is bad across-the-board. Big Government sucks. Big Business sucks. Big tech, big Hollywood, big universities. Any accumulation of power that is centralized is fundamentally dangerous for individual liberty. What is it that the communists want? They want control of everything. They want centralized power.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL Feb 24, 2022

On Technology: Break big tech up into a million little pieces

There is a pattern of government asking Big Tech to silence dissent. In Canada, the Canadian truckers. The Canadian government says, "oh, GoFundMe, billionaires, please silence these pesky truckers." The workers of the world had a revolt and the left is pissed. What is the answer? Fight the centralization of power. Break it up. Break big tech up into a million little pieces.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL Feb 24, 2022

On Health Care: COVID: Fauci elevated politics over science and medicine

Dr. Fauci has done more damage than any bureaucrat in the history of our nation. He led policies that destroyed peoples' lives, hurt tens of millions of kids across the country, destroying businesses. One of the consequences is he elevated politics over science and medicine. There is no one person who has done more to destroy trust in the scientific and medical community that Dr. Anthony Fauci. was told that millions of americans lied willingly, knowingly, glibly, supremely arrogantly.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland Mar 2, 2023

The above quotations are from Speeches at Conservative Political Action Conferences (2020s).
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