Ted Cruz Quotations | Page 5

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

I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary Clinton. They believed Donald Trump was the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat.

I am where a great many voters are, which is that I am listening and watching and coming to a decision.

The issues that I think matter, that I think resonate with the voters are, No. 1, defending our freedoms, defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No. 2, lifting the boot of Washington off of the back of the necks of small businesses so that people can have jobs again, wages can come back again, fighting for the working class, you are getting hammered by Washington. And, No. 3, keeping this country safe, a strong commander in chief we can trust to keep us safe. That's what I'm looking for.

Obama has been the most lawless president we've ever had.

People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are fed up with politicians who have lied to them.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.

The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody.

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

Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on the wrong path. I think we can change that, but I'll tell you, that's what I'm going to fight to do, and the reason so many grass-roots activists poured so much into it is they believed in our country. They believed in liberty.

We are the change we're waiting for.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

I believe in the American people. It's - I believe in trusting them, I believe in empowering them, and I think, at the end of the day, the only force strong enough to change the course we're on is the grass roots across the country.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying "We made promises to the people who elected us; let's do that."

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

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

We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a horrible job if half of young people think socialism is a good idea.

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

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

Most wars are not won in a single battle.

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

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. This man is a compulsive liar.

If Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals.

For most of his life, Donald Trump has described himself as very pro- choice and as a supporter of partial birth abortion. Right now today as a candidate, he supports federal tax payer funding for Planned Parenthood. I disagree with him on that.

When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

I will do whatever I can to defeat Hillary Clinton.

If the Republican Party stands for individual liberty, if we defend the Bill of Rights, if we stand for keeping this country safe, then we deserve to win, and if we don't, we deserve to lose. It shouldn't be - it's not just a game of blue team/red team. It is actually about making a difference in people's lives.

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'm an optimist at heart.

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.

I think the people who have been finding it harder and harder to feed their kids - the young people who are afraid "I'm never going to have a job and be able to provide for a family," all of that can turn around and it can turn around quickly.

I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I`m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science."

What data can tell you is if you have 10 messages, all of which you believe, it can tell you which messages are resonating and which aren't. And if you break it down even further, the truth of the matter is some messages resonate one place and other messages resonate another place.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

I know very much what I believe.

You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.

I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.

Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.

I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible.

We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.

I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.

The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free from government coercion; it does not mandate scouring the public square to forcibly remove all acknowledgement s of the Almighty

I recognize that folks in the press love to see Republican-on-Republican violence, and so you want me to say something bad about Donald Trump, or bad about John McCain or bad about anyone else, i'm not going to do it.

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

Every dollar not spent is another dollar you have to reach the voters and convey a message.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.

Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.

If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

You know, 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.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

How do we get America back to work? 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.

Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future.

Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.

We are still a nation of laws. You just have to check with Barack Obama every day to see what they are.

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.

Obamacare is the nation's biggest job killer and stands in the way of our country's economic growth and prosperity. It should be defunded and repealed. President Obama should hear the pleas from the untold number of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare plans, and Congress should act immediately to stop Obamacare from inflicting any more damage on the country on our hard-working citizens.

I will fight to defend liberty.

If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul.

President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.

In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.

If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."

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

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.