Quotes from Ted Cruz

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

I don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump, you're a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists.

To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people.

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.