Ted Cruz Quotes

We're all aware that Hillary Clinton has a problem with the truth. Even among politicians, and that does not make her unique in the swamp that is Washington. But Hillary stands out.

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I'll commend them for truth in advertising.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

The principles Donald Trump is focused on are exactly the right principles: more choice, more competition, lower costs, lower premiums.

Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether it is fairly enforcing the criminal laws against Planned Parenthood.

I will happily support anything that protects life.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

Most wars are not won in a single battle.

You cannot build a grass-roots campaign unless you are connecting with people.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

I care a heck of a lot more about America than I do about any political party.

The anger on the left - I've never seen anything like it. I mean, they're right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything.

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

I will do whatever I can to defeat Hillary Clinton.

I don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump, you're a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

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

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.

I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.

Donald Trump has opened [ politically correct enforcement] up wide. He's made a very bold statement and he's backed it back just a little bit when he said it is temporary.

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.