Rafael Cruz - Speech at the Oklahoma Southern Republican Leadership Conference

May 28, 2015

RAFAEL CRUZ - SPEECH AT THE OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

A must listen, Senator Ted Cruz Father speech at the Oklahoma SRLC

Transcript

 

It is so great to be among so many Patriots

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want every last seen the Wii in their readiness stayed

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in a union the

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you oklahomans rock well I'll tell you

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80s a blessing to live in America

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I didn't always live here I grew up in cuba

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on the library all press Save military dictatorship

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and of course a revolution started in the high school some the university's

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I found myself involved in a revolution

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as a teenager as a result a lot I was capture was impressed son was tortured

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bodies piled out the park but I thought I would be kill God had other plans for

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me

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and %ah even though I didn't know him he know me

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and so I why I was Res I'm they know I

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had to leave the country and so I wrote to three universities in the United

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States a purse want to us at me was a university affects us

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and so without a Septimus letter I was able to get up

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four-year student visa and come to the United States

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legally as a student went to university of exercise got a job full time as a

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dishwasher work

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full-time went to school full-time I remember when I was in cuba there was

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these young charismatic leader

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in the revolution talkin about whole and change

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his name was fidel castro and you know we all followed him with thought he was

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going to be our liberator or

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little did we know well anyway

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I went to your rich affects us then when he took over in 59

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I when Barack at the end of the semester the end of May

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a boy did I get a shock this same man that had been talking about hope and

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change was now talking about how the rich were

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bball about how they oppress the poor

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and about the need to

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redistribute the wealth they began confiscating private property up back in

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pre-dawn the press up back in freedom of religion

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I Diaz left totally disappointed

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never to go back to cuba bought saw blood

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do we in the land of the free and the home of the brave

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I am so proud to be an American

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this is the greatest country on the face of the earth you know I remember

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in the late seventies when I saw I government in this country

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beginning to institute policies that reminded me of that beer that big paper

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you remember they

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Carter years double-digit unemployment double-digit inflation lines around the

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block

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to collect get the gasoline 22 percent interest rates

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K governments all week in foreign policy

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that Iran became sawing ball then that capture

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82 Americans and held them hostage for 444 days

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he was not coincidental that they got a release that day

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president reagan was inaugurated Sol

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I remember I used to tell Ted

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my son dead you know Ted when I lost my freedom in cuba

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I had a place to calm to if we lose our freedoms here are

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way out are we going to go and you know that's a very somber inquest young

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daughter week

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have to ask ourselves today because we are on the verge

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of losing our freedoms our freedoms are being eroded

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more and more every day Eve we hype

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four or eight more years all these

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play all socialize marxist policies

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this country's gonna be gone

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I now tell you something

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I lost my freedom ones I'm not willing to lose it again

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I'll die fighting before I you see again and so should you

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so anyway as a result the what I saw in the carter years I became very mall

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in the reagan campaign I

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remember not our conversation around the dinner table was

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all about why we had to get rid of these left this progressive jimmy carter

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I'm replacing with a constitutional conservative

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like ronald reagan opt au. every day that was our conversation around the

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dinner table

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so my son when he was nine years old

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he got a dole so concerned about the ball it takes

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from a Christian worldview every day for a year

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and then

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we got I'm introduced to an organization called the Free Enterprise Institute

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he was just Embree high school he's reading

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Adams mass John Locke one me says hi and bass the Act the Federalist Papers the

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Anti Federalist Papers milton friedman

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and then they form a group of five kids call them the constitutional corroborate

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arse

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they talk days five kids so he died was one of them

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to memorize a US Constitution and for the next four years

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they travel the state up thanks as they would go into a luncheon meeting at a

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Rotary Club

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said fives he's also the front of the room

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while people were having lunch this five kids would write the Constitution

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by memory and then give a half our patio deck speech

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on free-market economics and the Constitution they'd be approximately

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ATV speeches some free market economics and the Constitution

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during the next four years all through high school before my son left high

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school

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he was passionate about the Constitution

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he was passionate about the declaration about free markets

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about limit the government about the rule of law

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and that passion became like firing his bones

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and let me tell you demory's on I know that my son Ted Cruz

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well not compromise his principles thing what should not

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is down fire his ass alive today

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acid was thirty years ago the

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America

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need Sep fighter America needs them and not principle

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American need to man that will tell the truth

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I'm would do what he says he's going to do the

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not so bad Cruces

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whether it is fighting the legal on constitutional

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amnesty of fighting for life of fighting for traditional marriage

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of fighting to stop out of control spending

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an hour control regulation on our control

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access that are destroying our economy what he wants to do

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Isom leash the private sector only sneak

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enterpreneurship America and allow Americans what to do what they do best

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and that is when governing gets out of the way by Greg I'm said it's all well

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government is not the solution government

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East the problem

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sup Ted Cruz wants to go to Washington to

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got down the size and scope on the federal government will be able to

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reduce back said to just left simple

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pride docs I'm abolish the IRS will be able to eliminate damn near Riyadh Saudi

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review regulations that are stifling

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best essays to be a small business owner in america today

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is very difficult because today thousands upon thousands

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all regulations we need to make sure those regulations to repeal

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one of the things up my son Ted Cruz has promised to do

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day one is to revoke all these

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on constitutional xx they've orders

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not Obama has put in place the

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me giddy with Obamacare the

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I'll tell you

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america is the greatest country on the face of the earth

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a married guy sec country that with hard work and perseverance

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all your dreams come become a reality

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I know I found my own life when I came to this country I had nothing couldn't

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even speak the language

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and I remember when my son was being sworn in as US Senator

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I couldn't contain the tears from my eyes hurt I was sitting

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in the Senate chamber seen him be rejoining

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and I just thought back over 50 years before

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when I came to this country when nothing and to now see my son as a US Senator

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I'm potentially be in their necks precedent on the United States of

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America

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the only thing that came to my mind was the least only

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in america only in america

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known Lanark precedent or anybody else

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tell you that this is not an exceptional country

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this is the most exceptional country on the face of the earth

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I let me tell you I'm married guy swarthy say be

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America I swarthy saving

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because the Seas the country that has exported

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freedom across the world that has exported the saving grace of Jesus

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Christ

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across the world I'm not tell your America needs

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a pressie then that will span for troops

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it is not coincidental that he spoke that's coming out

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in a month is call at time for

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drew's re igniting that promise

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America that promise that

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anyone can achieve their wildest dreams

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that promise that we can give our children

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on our grandchildren a better life that we have lip

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that promise that makes America that shining city on a hill

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to the glory of God I'll tell you one thing

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one thing you can count on Ted Cruz

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he will tell you the truth I'm he would do

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what he says he's going to do he will define the Constitution

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on the rule of law he will bring us back

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the white made America great and I'll tell you what

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he will fight relentlessly to see

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religious freedom back in America to see the Constitution

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on our to see that families have the opportunity

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to raise their children in an environment that is safe

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I need makes America great and it starts with the families

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this is why he's fighting so hard for tech

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traditional family for giving families the opportunity

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to make their dreams a reality I encourage you

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let's

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band together and together we the people

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can elect a constitutional concern about the

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like Ted Cruz to be was the greatest days

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over Mary cut yet I want to ask you

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I want to ask you to please takes

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that were Constitution I'm be called part all these

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grassroots army I'm calm join Ted Cruz

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to pay America bach to the glory of God

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thank you god bless you god bless america

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thank you