Top 615 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Cruz - Page 3

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

Christians are being systematically exterminated.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

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 am a passionate civil libertarian.

I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

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

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

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

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

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

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

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.

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.

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

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

When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

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.

I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

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

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 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.'

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.

Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

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

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

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

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

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

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

By any measure, NBC is a corporation.

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.

I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

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 ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

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

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

I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

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.

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

The United States has a responsibility to defend our values.

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

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

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'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

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

When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

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.

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

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.

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.

The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

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

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.