Ted Cruz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.”
-- Ted Cruz

#America #Want #Looks

“A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Impression

“I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Past #America #Months

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Numbers #America

“But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding in the shadows, far more pain in not standing for principle, not standing for the good, not standing for integrity.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Pain #Integrity #Shadow

“Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Military #Ifs And #Use

“We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Rising Up #Liberty

“I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #Military #Thinking

“Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Conservative #Persons

“As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #Giving #Decision

“The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Years #Lasts #Theory

“The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Citizens #Outcomes #Way

“I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary. Rand is a good friend, and we have worked side by side on many issues. I respect his talent, his passion, and the work he has done for Kentuckians and Americans in the U.S. Senate. His entry into the race will no doubt raise the bar of competition, help make us all stronger, and ultimately ensure that the GOP nominee is equipped to beat Hillary Clinton and to take back the White House for Republicans in 2016.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Passion #Good Friend #Race

“What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Simple #Two #Telling The Truth

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

#Opportunity #World #Prosperity

“This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Waiting #Lawyer

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Country #Night #Want

“The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Party #Careers #Leader

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Thinking #Obamacare #Doctors

“The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Views #Steps #Public Opinion

“It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.”
-- Ted Cruz

#America #Generations #Courageous

“The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Jobs #People #Growth

“It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Giving #Carter #Jimmy

“I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Optimistic #Agreement #Numbers

“I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Party #Years #Law

“The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Opportunity #Dna #Liberty

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Justice #Judging #Roles

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Common Sense #Principles #Constitution

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Issues #Decision #Speak

“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.”
-- Ted Cruz

#Kids #Fighting #Debt