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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.

If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.

We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.

I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

I think Mitt Romney is a good man.

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

I think the debate was really some powerful moments of clarity. We saw that Donald Trump, substantively, has the same issues on issue after issue as Hillary Clinton. He agreed with Hillary Clinton on Libya, toppling the government in Libya. That led directly to Benghazi, led to handing that country over to radical Islamic terrorism.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

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.

And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.