Top 615 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Cruz - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Christians have no greater ally than Israel.

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.

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

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.

My abuela was an incredible cook.

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.

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

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

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

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

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

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.

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

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

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

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.

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

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

We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

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

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

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.

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.'

Leading from behind doesn't work.

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.

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

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

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.