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President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant. -- Ted Cruz
If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant. -- Ted Cruz
If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant. -- Ted Cruz
If we have a biometric exit-entry system, we know on the day after six months has exceeded his visa.And with that exit- entry system, we can then send ICE, the law enforcement agents that exist, to go and get John and say, OK, you're here illegally now. -- Ted Cruz
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances. -- Ted Cruz
Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians. -- Ted Cruz
I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do. -- Ted Cruz
He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants. -- Ted Cruz
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
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington. -- Ted Cruz
If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home. -- Ted Cruz
Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we're ideally positioned to do exactly that. -- Ted Cruz
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are. -- Ted Cruz
We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS ... We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need to be the first steps. And then we need to put whatever ground power is needed to carry it out. -- Ted Cruz
My abuela was an incredible cook. -- Ted Cruz
ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception. -- Ted Cruz
It is my hope that all of the Republicans who recognize that nominating a candidate who agrees with Hillary Clinton on a host of issues, who has a very similar record, is not the path to victory. And if we come together, if conservatives stand together, we're going to have a great night on Tuesday. -- Ted Cruz
We're seeing so many people come around and say, "Listen, we want a real conservative. We don't want a Washington dealmaker who will support Democrats and cut deals to grow government and give into the cronyism and corporate welfare." -- Ted Cruz
I don't think I'm all that conservative. -- Ted Cruz
It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year. -- Ted Cruz
I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon. -- Ted Cruz
I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will. -- Ted Cruz
If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it. -- Ted Cruz
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
A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. -- Ted Cruz
Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication." -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session. -- Ted Cruz
I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign. And so I would encourage, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don't want Donald to be the nominee. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country. -- Ted Cruz
Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that. -- Ted Cruz
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.' -- Ted Cruz
We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Stopping bad things is a significant public service. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Ben Carson seems pretty proud that he knows how big the Medicare budget is. All that money goes to the private sector, but Carson seems to think the private sector would do a lot better if ... something. I'm not quite sure what. -- Ted Cruz
I can tell you is all nine of the people here [ on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. -- Ted Cruz
There is a better vision for our future: A return to freedom. -- Ted Cruz
We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation. -- Ted Cruz
I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians. -- Ted Cruz
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
A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better. -- Ted Cruz
Do you know how many aliens Bill Clinton deported? 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? 10 million. We can enforce the laws and if we secure the border, that solves the problem. And as president I will solve this problem and secure the border. -- Ted Cruz
I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy. -- Ted Cruz
I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us. -- Ted Cruz
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
Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work! -- Ted Cruz
Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh.But he can turn on you.And get nasty and personal and vicious. -- Ted Cruz
I think Mitt Romney is a good man. -- Ted Cruz
At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they're going to go. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoterwe ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries. -- Ted Cruz
I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you've got coming. -- Ted Cruz
When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about' ... We keep making that mistake with Putin. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I think Super Tuesday is the most important day of this entire primary election. It is the most delegates awarded in a single night will be awarded on Super Tuesday. -- Ted Cruz
We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don't keep America safe. -- Ted Cruz
Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative. -- Ted Cruz
I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy. -- Ted Cruz
Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing. -- Ted Cruz
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans. -- Ted Cruz
Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism. -- Ted Cruz
If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. -- Ted Cruz
If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is ... zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now. -- Ted Cruz
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination. -- Ted Cruz
Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives. -- Ted Cruz
Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics. -- Ted Cruz
We have to stop acquiescing even to the wording that the liberals use. -- Ted Cruz
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
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. -- Ted Cruz
And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever. -- Ted Cruz
The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable. -- Ted Cruz
Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs. -- Ted Cruz
Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream. -- Ted Cruz
You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line. -- Ted Cruz
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
Republican party leaders have been worrying about the damage a [Donald] Trump nomination could do to the party, but also what might happen if he left the GOP and took his supporters with him. But Trump said he would stay a Republican and do everything in his power to beat Hillary Clinton. -- Ted Cruz
Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. -- Ted Cruz
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age! -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Cloture is simply cutting off debate. -- Ted Cruz
It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. -- Ted Cruz
We are the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump. And we're the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump. If you look at the Super Tuesday states, we're running neck and neck with Donald in states all across Super Tuesday. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests. -- Ted Cruz
Because Reagan once said, you can't be for big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Boy, -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill. -- Ted Cruz
We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance. -- Ted Cruz
We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe. -- Ted Cruz
Well, guess what, I'm Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees. -- Ted Cruz
At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it. -- Ted Cruz
Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God. -- Ted Cruz
It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias. -- Ted Cruz
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. -- Ted Cruz
Christians have no greater ally than Israel. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect. -- Ted Cruz
I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. -- Ted Cruz
We don't have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don't do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them. -- Ted Cruz
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
God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet. -- Ted Cruz
If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe. -- Ted Cruz
Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct. -- Ted Cruz
We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them. -- Ted Cruz
The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978. -- Ted Cruz
Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
It is as the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once observed: Pass it to find out what is in it. That is how Washington does business. Let -- Ted Cruz
As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that. -- Ted Cruz
It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the[Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it. -- Ted Cruz
Political correctness is bad. -- Ted Cruz
We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees. -- Ted Cruz
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe. -- Ted Cruz
We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror. -- Ted Cruz
One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it. -- Ted Cruz
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now? -- Ted Cruz
Move over to Egypt. Once again, the [Barack] Obama administration, encouraged by Republicans, toppled [Hosni] Mubarak who had been a reliable ally of the United States, of Israel, and in its place, [Mohamed] Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood came in, a terrorist organization. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The [Barack] Obama administration wants to take our rights to keep and bear arms away from us. They are trying to take our God, and our gun. And if they do that, they can impose a dictatorship upon us. -- Ted Cruz
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. -- Ted Cruz
If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who's coming in. -- Ted Cruz
America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed - and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn't to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists. -- Ted Cruz
The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security. -- Ted Cruz
I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization. -- Ted Cruz
I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday. -- Ted Cruz
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard. -- Ted Cruz
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
We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America. -- Ted Cruz
In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists. -- Ted Cruz
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
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. -- Ted Cruz
If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird. -- Ted Cruz
Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again. -- Ted Cruz
If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them. -- Ted Cruz
On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law. -- Ted Cruz
If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ. -- Ted Cruz
The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community. -- Ted Cruz
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. -- Ted Cruz
There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights. -- Ted Cruz
It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature. -- Ted Cruz
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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
There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party. -- Ted Cruz
I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution. -- Ted Cruz
What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again. -- Ted Cruz
We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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 -- Ted Cruz
The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. -- Ted Cruz
Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square? -- Ted Cruz
If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you. -- Ted Cruz
There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism. -- Ted Cruz
You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work. -- Ted Cruz
I was bitten by an octopus. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive. -- Ted Cruz
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana. -- Ted Cruz
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage. -- Ted Cruz
If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country. -- Ted Cruz
I will fight to defend liberty. -- Ted Cruz
The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming. -- Ted Cruz
I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests. -- Ted Cruz
The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes. -- Ted Cruz
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
Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven. -- Ted Cruz
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything. -- Ted Cruz
I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign. -- Ted Cruz
Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America. -- Ted Cruz
We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women. -- Ted Cruz
What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost. -- Ted Cruz
I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people. -- Ted Cruz
The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration. -- Ted Cruz
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. -- Ted Cruz
I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem. -- Ted Cruz
It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'. -- Ted Cruz
Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works. -- Ted Cruz
If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I think that's a question for South Carolin and the last thing they need is people from outside the state coming in and dictating how they should resolve that issue [about flag]. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide. -- Ted Cruz
The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies. -- Ted Cruz
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy. -- Ted Cruz
The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump's henchmen, and I don't think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash. -- Ted Cruz
I was so horrifically bad at tennis. -- Ted Cruz
If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him. -- Ted Cruz
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
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people. -- Ted Cruz
Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity. -- Ted Cruz
I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more than a few Republicans - have gotten distracted from the central focus of keeping this country safe. -- Ted Cruz
We need a president who is willing to uphold the law. -- Ted Cruz
What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
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.' -- Ted Cruz
On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt. -- Ted Cruz
We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs. -- Ted Cruz
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing. -- Ted Cruz
I do not believe we should shut down the federal government. -- Ted Cruz
I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America. -- Ted Cruz
I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it? -- Ted Cruz
Leading from behind doesn't work. -- Ted Cruz
One of the things we've seen here is how easy it is for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to get distracted from dealing with radical Islamic terrorism. They won't even call it by its name. -- Ted Cruz
It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis. -- Ted Cruz
The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. -- Ted Cruz
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it. -- Ted Cruz
I will tell you, as president, I'm not going to be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with Israel. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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
It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan. -- Ted Cruz
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
I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth. -- Ted Cruz
I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote. -- Ted Cruz
A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here. -- Ted Cruz
ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
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
In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary. -- Ted Cruz
I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's. -- Ted Cruz
Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work. -- Ted Cruz
Yet we have tens of millions of people in this country out of work. Every month we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work. The -- Ted Cruz
I love Texas, I can't wait in a couple of days to be home to the great state. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous. -- Ted Cruz
Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making. -- Ted Cruz
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. -- Ted Cruz
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington. -- Ted Cruz
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd. -- Ted Cruz
One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected. -- Ted Cruz
The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion. -- Ted Cruz
School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good. -- Ted Cruz
I grew up eating Cuban food all the time. -- Ted Cruz
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage. -- Ted Cruz
Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel. -- Ted Cruz
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'. -- Ted Cruz
Marco [Rubio] has opposed at every point increased security - border security for those who come to our country. -- Ted Cruz
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms. -- Ted Cruz
By any measure, NBC is a corporation. -- Ted Cruz
You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode. -- Ted Cruz
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. -- Ted Cruz
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief. -- Ted Cruz
Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make? -- Ted Cruz
I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government. -- Ted Cruz
Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock. -- Ted Cruz
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. -- Ted Cruz
I think President's candidates need shock collars or something. -- Ted Cruz
I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career. -- Ted Cruz
Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says. -- Ted Cruz
I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America. -- Ted Cruz
Christians are being systematically exterminated. -- Ted Cruz
We are still a nation of laws. You just have to check with Barack Obama every day to see what they are. -- Ted Cruz
Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false. -- Ted Cruz
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. -- Ted Cruz
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
When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines. -- Ted Cruz
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally. -- Ted Cruz
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money. -- Ted Cruz
I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the [American] Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here. -- Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters. -- Ted Cruz
There is no doubt that if Donald [Trump] steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable. I don't think that will happen. -- Ted Cruz
A brand new Telemundo poll says that three out of four Hispanics that vote nationwide have a negative opinion of Doanald Trump. They don't like you. -- Ted Cruz
Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? -- Ted Cruz
We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran. -- Ted Cruz
President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together. -- Ted Cruz
Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others. -- Ted Cruz
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country. -- Ted Cruz
I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience. -- Ted Cruz
There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician? -- Ted Cruz
I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown. -- Ted Cruz
We have 400,000 small businesses forming every year in this country. How great is that? They are employing themselves, they are potentially employing others. The bad news is, we have 470,000 going out of business every year. And why? They cite Obamacare. -- Ted Cruz
We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world. -- Ted Cruz
Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan. -- Ted Cruz
'm not going to impugn anyone's integrity. I'm not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I'm not going to go personal with them. -- Ted Cruz
It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. -- Ted Cruz
If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration. -- Ted Cruz
There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration. -- Ted Cruz
Always be sexy. I salute that message. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn. -- Ted Cruz
When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor. -- Ted Cruz
About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes. -- Ted Cruz
I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. -- Ted Cruz
I do think we should be focused on substance and record. If you want a candidate who opposes amnesty, who opposes citizenship for the 12 million people here illegally, I'm the only candidate in the race who opposes that. -- Ted Cruz
In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks ... MACHINE-GUN BACON. -- Ted Cruz
This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That's not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country. -- Ted Cruz
The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process. -- Ted Cruz
I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys. -- Ted Cruz
We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists. -- Ted Cruz
If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare. -- Ted Cruz
Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists. -- Ted Cruz
We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority. -- Ted Cruz
You don't have to solve every problem at once. -- Ted Cruz
For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama. -- Ted Cruz
Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women! -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see. -- Ted Cruz
Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived. -- Ted Cruz
Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection. -- Ted Cruz
Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope. -- Ted Cruz
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue. -- Ted Cruz
I am a passionate civil libertarian. -- Ted Cruz
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. -- Ted Cruz
What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks. -- Ted Cruz
If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama. -- Ted Cruz
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.' -- Ted Cruz
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. -- Ted Cruz
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. -- Ted Cruz
Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified. -- Ted Cruz
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
My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen. -- Ted Cruz
I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care. -- Ted Cruz
The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA. -- Ted Cruz
The United States has a responsibility to defend our values. -- Ted Cruz
My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job. -- Ted Cruz
I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music. -- Ted Cruz
If you want a candidate who is led the fight against Obamacare, who will lift the burdens on small businesses and bring back jobs, I'm the only candidate in the race with that proven record. -- Ted Cruz
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do. -- Ted Cruz
I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington. -- Ted Cruz
Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law. -- Ted Cruz
Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar." -- Ted Cruz
Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that? -- Ted Cruz
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.' -- Ted Cruz
Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God. -- Ted Cruz
I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare. -- Ted Cruz
I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible. -- Ted Cruz
No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound. -- Ted Cruz
Government is never a source of goods. Everything produced is produced by the people, and everything that government gives to the people, it must first take from the people. -- Ted Cruz
Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background. -- Ted Cruz
We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy. -- Ted Cruz
Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer. -- Ted Cruz