Quotes from Ted Cruz

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

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.

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.

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

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.

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.

I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

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.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether it is fairly enforcing the criminal laws against Planned Parenthood.

I will happily support anything that protects life.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.