Top 200 Ted Cruz Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “We’re saying the Washington establishment run behind Donald Trump.”

— Ted Cruz

104. “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

105. “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

106. “I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.”

— Ted Cruz

107. “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

108. “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

109. “We don’t have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America.”

— Ted Cruz

110. “I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.”

— Ted Cruz

111. “The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.”

— Ted Cruz

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

116. “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

117. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

119. “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

120. “I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization.”

— Ted Cruz

121. “In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.”

— Ted Cruz

122. “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

123. “Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.”

— Ted Cruz

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

130. “We’re seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.”

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

132. “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

133. “I don’t think I’m all that conservative.”

— Ted Cruz

134. “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

135. “Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one’s thought of that before.”

— Ted Cruz

136. “It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.”

— Ted Cruz

137. “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

138. “We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.”

— Ted Cruz

139. “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

140. “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

141. “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

142. “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

143. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

145. “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

146. “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

147. “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

148. “The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.”

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

150. “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