Ted Cruz famous quotes

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.
-- Ted Cruz

#America #Want #Looks

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.
-- Ted Cruz

#Impression

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.
-- Ted Cruz

#Past #America #Months

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Numbers #America

But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding in the shadows, far more pain in not standing for principle, not standing for the good, not standing for integrity.
-- Ted Cruz

#Pain #Integrity #Shadow

Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.
-- Ted Cruz

#Military #Ifs And #Use

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Rising Up #Liberty

I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #Military #Thinking

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.
-- Ted Cruz

#Conservative #Persons

As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #Giving #Decision

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.
-- Ted Cruz

#Years #Lasts #Theory

The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.
-- Ted Cruz

#Citizens #Outcomes #Way

I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary. Rand is a good friend, and we have worked side by side on many issues. I respect his talent, his passion, and the work he has done for Kentuckians and Americans in the U.S. Senate. His entry into the race will no doubt raise the bar of competition, help make us all stronger, and ultimately ensure that the GOP nominee is equipped to beat Hillary Clinton and to take back the White House for Republicans in 2016.
-- Ted Cruz

#Passion #Good Friend #Race

What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
-- Ted Cruz

#Simple #Two #Telling The Truth

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
-- Ted Cruz

#Opportunity #World #Prosperity

This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Waiting #Lawyer

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Night #Want

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.
-- Ted Cruz

#Party #Careers #Leader

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Obamacare #Doctors

The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.
-- Ted Cruz

#Views #Steps #Public Opinion

It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.
-- Ted Cruz

#America #Generations #Courageous

The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #People #Growth

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
-- Ted Cruz

#Giving #Carter #Jimmy

I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.
-- Ted Cruz

#Optimistic #Agreement #Numbers

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.
-- Ted Cruz

#Party #Years #Law

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.
-- Ted Cruz

#Opportunity #Dna #Liberty

It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.
-- Ted Cruz

#Justice #Judging #Roles

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.
-- Ted Cruz

#Common Sense #Principles #Constitution

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.
-- Ted Cruz

#Issues #Decision #Speak

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.
-- Ted Cruz

#Kids #Fighting #Debt

The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.
-- Ted Cruz

#Party #Careers #People

What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.
-- Ted Cruz

#Winning #Law #Light

I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.
-- Ted Cruz

#Lying #Doors #Light

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.
-- Ted Cruz

#Religious #Fighting #Liberty

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.
-- Ted Cruz

#Integrity #What Matters #Sticks

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.
-- Ted Cruz

#Want #Problem #Politician

I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Leader #Challenges

A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.
-- Ted Cruz

#Spouse

The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process.
-- Ted Cruz

#America #People #Decision

While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.
-- Ted Cruz

#Gay #Differences #Age Difference

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.
-- Ted Cruz

#Views #Waiting #Lines

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.
-- Ted Cruz

#Dream #Immigration #Imagine

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.
-- Ted Cruz

#Leadership #Wisdom #Work

Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.
-- Ted Cruz

#Leadership #Strong #Spring

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
-- Ted Cruz

#Technology #Obamacare #Government

Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.
-- Ted Cruz

#Leadership #Party #Fighting

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.
-- Ted Cruz

#Men #Self #Wife

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
-- Ted Cruz

#Earth #Today #Global Warming

And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.
-- Ted Cruz

#Zero #Years #Data

Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.
-- Ted Cruz

#Israel #President #Imagine

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.
-- Ted Cruz

#People #Borders #Purpose

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.
-- Ted Cruz

#Father #People #History

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Community #Patriotism

Always be sexy. I salute that message.
-- Ted Cruz

#Sexy #Messages #Salute

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.
-- Ted Cruz

#Cat #Government #Done

He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.
-- Ted Cruz

#Pathways #Immigration #Groups

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
-- Ted Cruz

#Taken #Responsibility #Government

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
-- Ted Cruz

#Liberty #Voters #Fighter

Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.
-- Ted Cruz

#Religious #Military #Years

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
-- Ted Cruz

#Essence #Want #Messages

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
-- Ted Cruz

#Men #People #Understanding

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Epic #Government

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
-- Ted Cruz

#Cutting #Ifs And #Debt

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.
-- Ted Cruz

#Government #Long #Size

Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
-- Ted Cruz

#Hurt #Jobs #Average

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.
-- Ted Cruz

#Years #Answers #Twenties

The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free from government coercion; it does not mandate scouring the public square to forcibly remove all acknowledgement s of the Almighty
-- Ted Cruz

#Religious #Heart #Squares

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Conservative

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
-- Ted Cruz

#Agency #Nasa #Committees

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
-- Ted Cruz

#Leader #President #Liberty

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.
-- Ted Cruz

#Responsibility #Government #Choices

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.
-- Ted Cruz

#Dad #Teenager #Years

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Community #Entrepreneur

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Military #Demographics

You know, back in the '70s — I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
-- Ted Cruz

#Remember #Problem #Bigs

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Spring #Home

If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.
-- Ted Cruz

#Bird #Liberty #Proud

There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.
-- Ted Cruz

#Feet #Bills #Speak

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
-- Ted Cruz

#People #President #Together

What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
-- Ted Cruz

#Strong #Character #Thinking

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
-- Ted Cruz

#Children #Taken #Blessing

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.
-- Ted Cruz

#Gun #President #Crime

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Party #Roots

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
-- Ted Cruz

#Sound #Foundation #Constitution

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #Government #Entrepreneur

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #Thinking #Government

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
-- Ted Cruz

#Constitution #Touchstones

In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.
-- Ted Cruz

#Hate #Months #Telling The Truth

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.
-- Ted Cruz

#Liberty #Politics

The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation is not their objective. If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon the odds are unacceptably high that that weapon will not be simply stockpiled, but it will be detonated over Tel Aviv, or New York, or Los Angeles.
-- Ted Cruz

#New York #Self #Iran

How do we get America back to work? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
-- Ted Cruz

#Responsibility #Thinking #Government