Ted Cruz Top 10

1) “Embrace a big, positive jobs, growth and opportunity agenda.” He said that needs to include not just approval of the Keystone pipeline, but other jobs bills, including easing federal regulations.

Cruz said Republicans should send Obama a full repeal bill, but then also send small repeal bills to test Obama’s willingness on health care and draw a distinction between the two parties.

3) “We need to finally secure the border and stop the president’s unconstitutional amnesty.”

4) “We need to hold government accountable, and rein in judicial activism.” Cruz warned that federal judges continue to rule against state marriage laws, when those issues should be left to the states.

5) “It’s time to stop the culture of corruption.” Cruz said quick passage of the $1.1 trillion spending bill last year was an example of both parties failing to govern and failing to give Congress itself a chance to understand what was in the bill.

But he said another example is the continued existence of the Export-Import Bank to benefit big companies, and ignoring the needs of smaller companies.

Another, he said, can be seen in how members of Congress can serve virtually for life. “Serving in Congress should not be a lifetime job,” he said as he called for term limits.

6) “We need to pass fundamental tax reform, making our tax code simply, flatter, fairer.” He said this should include one key plan: “We should abolish the IRS.”

7) “We need to audit the Federal Reserve.” Cruz said the Fed’s loose monetary policy has led to inflation within the country, and said Congress needs a better grasp of what the Fed has been doing for the last several years.

8) “It is long past time for us to pass a strong balanced budget amendment,” he said. “What we’re doing to our kids and grandkids right now is, in my view, fundamentally irresponsible.”

9) “We need to repeal Common Core.” Cruz said the federal government needs to stop dictating education policy to the states.

10) “We’ve got to deal seriously with the twin threats of ISIS and a nuclear Iran.”

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Wish we didn’t have to have an amendment to force a balanced budget. If a business was operated the way our government is, it wouldn’t be in business for long. I’m math challenged and even I know that. I thought most of Congress and the president were well educated.

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