Ted Cruz Quotes

My country has been a victim of intrusion, of interference in its domestic affairs by foreign intelligences.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

We need to make it very clear - whether it's Russia, China, Iran or anybody else - the United States has much greater capacity. And we are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.

When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn't seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.

There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

There are a number of countries that we see cyber-attacks emanating from. And, again, they can be just individuals who are located in the country. But three that I think are of special concern would be Iran, would be Russia, and China.

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia. I have no belief whatever in her ability to maintain an effective offensive, even if she wanted to.

Neoconservatives believe that we can only be defined by having an enemy.

There is a huge expanse of flat land that Napoleonic France, imperial Germany, and Nazi Germany all crossed to strike at Russia itself, Ukraine serves as a buffer state of enormous strategic importance to Russia. No Russian leader would tolerate a military alliance that was Moscow’s mortal enemy until recently moving into Ukraine. Nor would any Russian leader stand idly by while the West helped install a government there that was determined to integrate Ukraine into the West.

When you are Commander in Chief, you should keep all your options on the table.

We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief.

This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.

Like any country with sophisticated intelligence services, Russia has long been a careful student of U.S. freedoms, laws and the constraints of its main nemesis in the U.S., the FBI.

While the specifics of Russia's interference in the 2016 American election remain unclear, no one doubts that Moscow has built a robust technological arsenal for waging cyberattacks.

Many observers believe that the greatest damage Russia has done to U.S. interests in recent years stems from the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Although there is no question that Moscow's meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses.

No matter what President Trump says, Russia is an adversary and a threat - look no further than their invasion of Crimea.

A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump.

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.

When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.