Quotes from Ted Cruz

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

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

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

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.

If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home.

Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.