Top 200 Ted Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be.”

— Ted Cruz

52. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

54. “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

55. “Political correctness is bad.”

— Ted Cruz

56. “If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant.”

— Ted Cruz

57. “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

58. “My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.”

— Ted Cruz

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters – because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.”

— Ted Cruz

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.”

— Ted Cruz

68. “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

69. “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

70. “If you’re looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, 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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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.”

— Ted Cruz

74. “I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism, and what my legislation would do is suspend all refugees for three years from countries where ISIS or Al Qaida control substantial territory.”

— Ted Cruz

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

78. “Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.”

— Ted Cruz

79. “I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I’m focusing on are my own policy proposals.”

— Ted Cruz

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

86. “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.”

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

— Ted Cruz

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

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

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93. “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

94. “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

95. “Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?”

— Ted Cruz

96. “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

97. “If as a voter you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump’s your guy.”

— Ted Cruz

98. “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

99. “A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don’t necessarily see.”

— Ted Cruz

100. “My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it’s like to lose it.”

— Ted Cruz