Ilan Ben-Meir is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Graham said of Cruz, "He is trying to be an isolationist when that's hot; he's trying to be a Lindsey Graham-type when that's hot."
"Now how do you pronounce that?"
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"Rand Paul's a fine man, but he's been wrong about everything."
"I would argue that Lindsey Graham’s foreign policy is very similar to Hillary Clinton’s. It’s in favor of regime change in Libya, regime change in Syria and Iraq – but really, that’s made us less safe."
"It’s one thing what’s happening on the streets — it’s a whole other thing keeping those videotapes, you know, private for 14 months, or whatever it was, without action."
"He basically takes all incoming, from blogs or whatever else he checks, and just repeats it out, and his views on Syria have changed four times in the last month and a half. It's not a serious candidacy."
"If Trump is the nominee, we lose – as Republicans, we lose the Senate, we lose most of the House, and we lose the presidency."
"Hitler went to the pastors, put his arms around them, and said: ‘You take care of their souls inside of the church — I’ll take care of the nation.' And because the church did not get involved, six million Jews were exterminated."
"Now listen – I’m the father of two daughters, and the idea that the federal government is coming in saying that boys, with all the god-given equipment of boys, can be in the shower room with junior high girls – this is lunacy!"
"Kennedy was young and appealing and ostensibly liberal, but I think at that point, seeing through Kennedy, and what liberalism was, was probably a significant step for me to understand that conventional politics or liberalism was not what was relevant.”
The ad touts Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's opposition to President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and features a photoshopped image of President Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani -- but the two have never met.
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"This is a strong guy knows what he wants, and this is what we need."
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Outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner is one of the most famous cigarette smokers in Washington -- and when the federal government considered cracking down on smoking in the workplace in 1991, the Ohio Republican decided to take a stand.
"Does being captured make you a hero? I don't know. I'm not sure," Donald Trump told Dan Rather in 2000.
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