Latest Rafael Cruz Quotes from Interviews

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• In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

  Rafael Cruz

  Socialist Government, Alliances, Taxation

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• We've got, not only the Alaskan pipeline is not being built, and that oil, Canada may decide to sell it to China, and we may lose that oil forever.

  Rafael Cruz

  Oil, Forever, Pipeline

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• You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.

  Rafael Cruz

  Growth, Als, Way

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• We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

  Rafael Cruz

  Religious, Liberty, Religious Freedom

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• Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

  Rafael Cruz

  Prayer, School, Our Society

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• In 1962 and 1963, there were two abominable decisions out of the Supreme Court, and that was taking prayer out of school, and taking bible reading out of school. But you know, if you look at the statistics, two very critical things happened after that date. Number one: teen pregnancy skyrocketed. Number two: violent crime skyrocketed.

  Rafael Cruz

  Prayer, Reading, Pregnancy

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• Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

  Rafael Cruz

  Government, Culture, Slavery

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• It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.

  Rafael Cruz

  Lying, Favors, Amnesty

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• How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.

  Rafael Cruz

  Children, It Takes A Village, Village To Raise A Child

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

  Rafael Cruz

  Problem, Foolish, Socialist

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• [Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And that is redistribution of wealth in a global basis. It's fundamental Marxism.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Ocean, Giving

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• Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Zero, World

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• I came to the country [U.S] without speaking a word of English, without a penny, worked full time, 40 hours a week, went to school full time, opened my own small business, ended up being a multi-millionaire. If I can do it, without even knowing the language, anybody can do it. All it takes is determination, perseverance, and like Winston Churchill said: 'Never, never, never, never give up.'"

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Perseverance, Determination

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• As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

  Rafael Cruz

  Suicide, Obamacare, Elderly

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• You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live in mediocrity? Because that's all that the entitlements are going to do for you. Keep you living in the lowest socio-economic scale.

  Rafael Cruz

  Hands, Needs, Looks

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• The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

  Rafael Cruz

  Party, Poor, Democrat

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• As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.

  Rafael Cruz

  Black, Population, Matter

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• I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'

  Rafael Cruz

  Party, Years, Two

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

  Rafael Cruz

  Thinking, Government, Make You Think

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• We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God.

  Rafael Cruz

  School, Kids, Government

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• Why do you think there's so many thousands of Cuban doctors in Florida? Because they all had to leave Cuba. Because doctors were rich, and so the [Fidel] Castro government began confiscating all their property. Not much different from this plan to tax you at a higher rate if you and your family, you and your spouse make over $250,000. You're rich! So they must confiscate more your money.

  Rafael Cruz

  Thinking, Doctors, Florida

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.

  Rafael Cruz

  Government, Together, Needs

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• I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

  Rafael Cruz

  Thinking, Talking, Needs

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• What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

  Rafael Cruz

  Cuba, Students, Communism

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• The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.

  Rafael Cruz

  Writing, Order, Law

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com