Top 200 Ted Cruz Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer’s gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.”

— Ted Cruz

154. “We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.”

— Ted Cruz

155. “As conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we’ve got a Republican Senate, and we don’t have leaders who honor their commitments. I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.”

— Ted Cruz

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “We have to stop acquiescing even to the wording that the liberals use.”

— Ted Cruz

163. “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

164. “When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.”

— Ted Cruz

165. “If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who’s coming in.”

— Ted Cruz

166. “Donald Trump agreed with Hillary Clinton supporting John Kerry. He agreed with Hillary Clinton on being – quote – “neutral” between Israel and the Palestinians.”

— Ted Cruz

167. “Listen, if you’re a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.”

— Ted Cruz

168. “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

169. “I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

— Ted Cruz

170. “Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.”

— Ted Cruz

171. “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

172. “At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they’re going to go.”

— Ted Cruz

173. “We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.”

— Ted Cruz

174. “One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.”

— Ted Cruz

175. “The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.”

— Ted Cruz

176. “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

177. “We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. We will utterly destroy ISIS.”

— Ted Cruz

178. “I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.”

— Ted Cruz

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

182. “About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton.”

— Ted Cruz

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.”

— Ted Cruz

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

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

— Ted Cruz

195. “We’re seeing something fairly remarkable happen on the political train. We’re seeing the Washington establishment abandoning Marco Rubio. I think they’ve made the determination that Marco can’t win. And they’re rushing to support Donald Trump.”

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

197. “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

198. “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

199. “I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.”

— Ted Cruz

200. “I think President’s candidates need shock collars or something.”

— Ted Cruz