Quotes from Ted Cruz

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

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.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

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

Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.

The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.

I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

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.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

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.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

Christians are being systematically exterminated.