Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz Speaks at Liberty University

thank you so much president Falwell god bless liberty university nnj

today I want to talk with you about the pro of America and that's when your parents when they were children imagine

a little girl growing up in Wilmington Delaware during World War two the daughter I'm Irish and Italian Catholic family working

class her uncle ran numbers in Wilmington she grew up with dozens of cousins because

our mom was the second youngest seventeen kids she had a difficult father a man who drank far too much and

frankly I didn't think that women should be educated and yet this young girl pretty and shy was driven was

bright was inquisitive and she became the first person in our family ever to go to college in

nineteen fifty six my mom Eleanor graduated from Rice University with a degree in math and

became a pioneering computer programmer in the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixty nndb

imagine a teenage boy not much younger than many of you here today growing up in Cuba jet

black hair skinny as a rail nnj involved in student council and

was oppressive and this teenage boy joins a revolution he joins a revolution against but Keith

came against fighting with other teenagers to free Cuba from the dictator this boy at age seventeen finds

kill he comes to America imagine for for a second the whole that was in his heart as he rode that ferry boat across

the one land on earth that has welcome so many millions when my dad came into America in

nineteen fifty seven he could not have imagined what lay in store for him imagine a young married couple living

they're both drinking far too much they're living a fast life when I was three my father decided delete

my mother and me we were living in Calgary at the time he got on a plane and he flew back to Texas and he decided he didn't want to be married anymore and

him to a Bible study invited him the clay road Baptist church and they are my father gave his life to Jesus nnj

and god transform his heart and he drove to the airport he bought a plane ticket and

he flew back to be with my mother and me they're people who wonder if faith Israel I can tell you in

my family there's not a second of doubt because were it not for the transformative love of

Jesus Christ I would have been saved and I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the house imagine

another little girl living in Africa in Kenya Nigeria diverse crowd playing with kids they spoke Swahili she spoke English coming

back to California nnj where her parents who had been missionaries in Africa raised her the