672 Quotes by Ted Cruz

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?

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

What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.

President [Barack] Obama has talked about fundamentally transforming this country. There's 7 billion people across the face of the globe, many of whom want to come to this country. If they come legally, great. But if they come illegally and they get amnesty, that is how we fundamentally change this country, and it really is striking.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

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.

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.

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.