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
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
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
On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics – Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office. – Ted Cruz
We shouldn’t let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe. – Ted Cruz
We’re seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C. – Ted Cruz
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, ‘if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.’ – Ted Cruz
If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don’t want to be subject to it? – Ted Cruz
We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it’s not going to come from the government picking winners and losers. – Ted Cruz
How do we turn our nation around? 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
The reason why I’m a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream. – Ted Cruz
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
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
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms. – Ted Cruz
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now? – Ted Cruz
I don’t think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. – Ted Cruz
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. – Ted Cruz
The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don’t stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don’t rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls. – Ted Cruz
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, ‘You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.’ And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. – Ted Cruz
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. – Ted Cruz
