Top 133 Ted Cruz Quotes

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don’t stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don’t rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.

What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

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.

Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, ‘If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.’

How do we turn our nation around? 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.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up.

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

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

It’s not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She‘s a U.S. citizen, so I’m a U.S. citizen.

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

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.

I think most Americans don’t really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

If I’m elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

I support capital punishment. But let’s be clear: It’s a decision for each state to make.

We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

If you’re looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get – to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain’t your guy.

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty – fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

I’m not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn’t come over to my house. I don’t hang out with Ted Nugent.

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

I’m a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton‘s escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton’s consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

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

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

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. Those are all conservative values – faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

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

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

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.

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in ’92 ran as an establishment moderate – same candidate, two very different campaigns.

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

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

There is no room for Christians in today‘s Democratic Party.

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

We need to remain a nation that doesn’t just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

We’re seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

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

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

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

When you’re putting together a campaign for president, like I’ve been, that entails a lot of time. It’s not like I’ve been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn’t do it.

I’ve really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called ‘scientific theory‘ that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they’ve defined it, can never be disproved.

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.

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

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.

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

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It’s not a question of stupidity. It’s that they don’t want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany – look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let’s appease them. Why? Because it can’t be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, ‘The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about’… We keep making that mistake with Putin.

We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

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.

I don’t think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don’t scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

We shouldn’t let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, ‘You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.’ And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

It’s tragic from how far we’ve come from ‘Hope and Change’.

If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

Leading from behind doesn’t work.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

Sure, I’ve listed myself as Cuban-American. That’s my heritage and my background.

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama’s amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, ‘No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.’

If I’m elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.

It’s remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it’s very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

Christians have no greater ally than Israel.

We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’.

We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

What I try to keep an eye on is I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don’t abuse their power.

I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

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.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

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.

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics – Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

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.

I’m always amused when the ‘New York Times‘ writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, ‘This is the way Republicans can save themselves.’ Look, the ‘New York Times’ disagrees with us. They’re entitled to disagree with us, but it’s not like we should take their advice.

I think Mitt Romney is a good man.

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it’s like to lose it.

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don’t pose imminent threats.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

You’d better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate – other than an incumbent President – in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, ‘We’re not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. ‘We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,’ and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

It’s been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen – a natural born citizen.

We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it’s not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

I was bitten by an octopus.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren’t listening.

My abuela was an incredible cook.