"He carries a crossbow for blood sucking journalist and he isn't afraid to use it!"
"This is not a cage match. And you look at the questions: Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain? Ben Carson, can you do math? John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? Marco Rubio, why don't you resign? Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?
"How about talking about the substantive issues people care about?" he said. Again to a round of applause.
"I'm not finished yet. The contrast with the Democratic debate where every fawning question from the media was, 'Which of you is more handsome and wise?'
"And let me be clear," Cruz added. "The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate.
"That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks," he said. "And nobody watching at home believes that any of the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary."