Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

— Ted Cruz

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

— Ted Cruz

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

— Ted Cruz

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.

— Ted Cruz

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.

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

— Ted Cruz

Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.

— Ted Cruz

If we got out of Washington, D.C., if we went to the American people and said what are your top priorities--we actually have. We don't have to hypothesize about that. The American people over and over again say jobs and the economy are their top priorities. The American people want ObamaCare stopped because it is not working, it is killing jobs, it is pushing people into part-time work. Yet this Senate has not been listening to the American people. We need to make D.C. listen.

— Ted Cruz

If we're going to repeal Obamacare, and I'm convinced we're going to, it's going to come from y'all. It's going to come from the people saying this thing isn't working, let's start over. And I intend -- let me just say, that '14 and '16, I think those elections should be about many, many things, they should be about freedom, they should be about jobs, they should be about growth, but they should be about repealing every bloody word of Obamacare.

— Ted Cruz

Instead of the joblessness, instead of the millions forced into part-time work, instead of the millions who’ve lost their health insurance, lost their doctors, have faced skyrocketing health insurance premiums, imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare.

— Ted Cruz

God’s blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn’t done with America yet. I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America, and that is why today I am announcing that I’m running for president of the United States. It is a time for truth. It is a time for liberty. It is a time to reclaim the Constitution of the United States.

— Ted Cruz

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

— Ted Cruz

Ya' want to know what I will do as president it's real simple. We'll kill terrorists, we'll repeal Obamacare, and we will defend the constitution. Every single word of of it!

— Ted Cruz

We should not give $500 million to a corrupt organization that is selling unborn children's body parts.

— Ted Cruz

You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.

— Ted Cruz

The U.S. government is crushing liberty at nearly every turn. Our Constitutional rights are under attack like never before and we must fight back.

— Ted Cruz

Back in September, my friend Donald said he had his lawyers look at this from every which way and there was no issue there. There was nothing to this birther issue. Now since September, the Constitution hasn't changed. But the poll numbers have. And I recognize, I recognize that Donald is dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in Iowa. But the facts and law here are really quite clear. Under longstanding U.S. law, the child of a U.S. Citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen.

— Ted Cruz

Let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him.

— Ted Cruz

Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.

— Ted Cruz

God bless each and everyone of you.

— Ted Cruz

What if this right now is our last time? Our last moment to do something for our families, and our country? Did we live up to the values we say we believe? Did we do all we really could?

— Ted Cruz

America is more than just a land mass between two oceans, America is an ideal. A simple, yet powerful ideal. Freedom matters.

— Ted Cruz

Government power has been the unavoidable constant in life. Government decrees and the people obey, but not here. We have no king or queen, we have no dictator, we the people constrain government.

— Ted Cruz

Our nation is exceptional because it was built on the five most beautiful and powerful words in the English language, "I want to be free."

— 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

My friends, this is madness.

— Ted Cruz

People are fed up with politicians who don't listen to them. Fed up with a corrupt system that benefits the elites instead of working men and women.

— Ted Cruz

If we stand together and choose freedom, our future will be brighter. Freedom will bring back jobs and raise wages. Freedom will lift people out of dependency to the dignity of work.

— Ted Cruz

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

— Ted Cruz

If you love our country, and love our children as much as you do, stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom, and to be faithful to the constitution.

— Ted Cruz

We deserve an immigration system that puts America first, and yes, builds a wall to keep America safe.

— Ted Cruz

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.

— Ted Cruz

We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

— 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