Ted Cruz Quotes - Page 4

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

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.

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.

It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.

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.

What data can tell you is if you have 10 messages, all of which you believe, it can tell you which messages are resonating and which aren't. And if you break it down even further, the truth of the matter is some messages resonate one place and other messages resonate another place.

I'm an optimist at heart.

We are the change we're waiting for.

I think primary voters have a right to know. And Donald's Trump excuse of it that he's being audited, look, that makes it even more important for him to release his taxes, so that voters can see if there is - Mitt Romney suggested there could be a bombshell there. I don't know if there is or not. But Donald is hiding them from the voters, and I think he owes candor to the voters.

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

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.

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.

If Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals.

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

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

A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."

I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.

I know very much what I believe.

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

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.

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?