Ted Cruz Quotes About Terrorists

Quotes about: Terrorists

• We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Egypt, President

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

• In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Enough Time, Immigration

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• Move over to Egypt. Once again, the [Barack] Obama administration, encouraged by Republicans, toppled [Hosni] Mubarak who had been a reliable ally of the United States, of Israel, and in its place, [Mohamed] Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood came in, a terrorist organization.

  Ted Cruz

  Moving, Israel, Egypt

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

  Ted Cruz

  War, Islamic, America

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Immigration, Terrorist, Has Beens

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to topple [Bashar] Assad. Assad is a bad man. Gadhafi was a bad man. Mubarak had a terrible human rights record. But they were assisting us - at least [Muammar] Gadhafi and [Hosni] Mubarak - in fighting radical Islamic terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Fighting, Men

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. We will utterly destroy ISIS.

  Ted Cruz

  Isis, America, President

  Ted Cruz at the second GOP debate at the Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Risk, Immigration

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel doesn't have a dog in that fight because Assad is a puppet of Iran, a Shia radical Islamic terrorist, but at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't want to see Syria governed by ISIS.

  Ted Cruz

  Dog, Islamic, Fighting

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Borders, Border Security

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

• It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Female, Stopping

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Needs, Radical

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• Here at home, we need to do two fundamental things. Number one, we need to recognize that technology has moved on. The Patriot Act was signed in 2001, roughly. The iPhone was invented in 2007. The iPad was invented in 2011. Snapchat and Twitter, all the rest of it, have been around just for several years. Technology has moved on, and the terrorists have moved on with it.

  Ted Cruz

  Home, Technology, Iphone

  Ted Cruz at the second GOP debate at the Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Air, Isis, Cities

  Republican Debate in Las Vegas, time.com. December 15, 2015.

• When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

  Ted Cruz

  Land, Numbers, Lines

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

• We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

  Ted Cruz

  Isis, Priorities, President

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

  Ted Cruz

  Freedom, Data Collection, Government

  "Posturing on the National Security Agency ruling" by Jennifer Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. May 7, 2015.

• The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys.

  Ted Cruz

  Phones, Cells, Law

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

• One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Government, Middle East

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

• We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Long, President

• We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Focus, Needs

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

• Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government in Libya. They did it because they wanted to promote democracy. A number of Republicans supported them. Well, the result is, Libya is now a terrorist war zone run by jihadists.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, War, Government

  5th Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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