Top 200 Ted Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Ted Cruz

2. “Remember the lessons of history – if we don’t learn from history, we’re bound to repeat it.”

— Ted Cruz

3. “A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.”

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4. “You don’t have to solve every problem at once.”

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

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6. “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

7. “Always be sexy. I salute that message.”

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8. “It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.”

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9. “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

10. “I will fight to defend liberty.”

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

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12. “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.”

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13. “The whole world’s on fire.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “I would note that the scripture tells us, “you shall know them by their fruit.” We see lots of “campaign conservatives.” But 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.”

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16. “Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.”

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17. “If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.”

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18. “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.”

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19. “The court doesn’t follow public opinion. The court’s views are radically out of step with public opinion.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “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.”

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

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23. “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.”

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24. “Politically correct enforcement that’s out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind.”

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25. “I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “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

36. “Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!”

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37. “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.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.”

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42. “We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don’t keep America safe.”

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43. “Since there are no absolutes, when it’s convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?”

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44. “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.”

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45. “I love Texas, I can’t wait in a couple of days to be home to the great state.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “I will tell you, as president, I’m not going to be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with Israel.”

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50. “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