Top 121 Ted Cruz Quotes

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

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.’

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

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

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

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

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

I’ve spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I’m a fan of Jeb Bush’s.

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

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

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.

We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That’s the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It’s not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer’s gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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’.

I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don’t believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

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.

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

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.

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.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn’t come put his arm around him and say, ‘Let me take care of you.’

My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That’s the world in which I grew up, and that’s a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

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.

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

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

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.

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

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.

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.

If we’re going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

For families, for parents that don’t want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.

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.

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.

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.

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

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

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.

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.

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.

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

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

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.

The reason why I’m a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.