When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn’t come put his arm around him and say, ‘Let me take care of you.’ – Ted Cruz
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. – Ted Cruz
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. – Ted Cruz
I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare. – Ted Cruz
I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer’s gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. – Ted Cruz
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it’s like to lose it. – Ted Cruz
If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe. – Ted Cruz
If you’re looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get – 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
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don’t act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth. – Ted Cruz
There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren’t listening. – Ted Cruz
What I try to keep an eye on is I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans. – Ted Cruz
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate. – Ted Cruz
Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone’s costs. – Ted Cruz
We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs. – Ted Cruz
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That’s the world in which I grew up, and that’s a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. – Ted Cruz
And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do. – Ted Cruz
I think it’s very important to have a public discussion about why we’re denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights. – Ted Cruz
We need to remain a nation that doesn’t just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream. – Ted Cruz
You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It’s one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer. – Ted Cruz
When you’re putting together a campaign for president, like I’ve been, that entails a lot of time. It’s not like I’ve been at the beach sipping a pina colada. – Ted Cruz
