Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening. "

Ted Cruz

Men

Listening

Frustration

Related Quotes:

" Cloture is simply cutting off debate. "

" The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. "

" I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it. "

" 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. "

" I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy. "

" If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama. "

" We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. "

" 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. "

" I was bitten by an octopus. "

Ted Cruz

Bitten

Octopus

" I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. "

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

" We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe. "

" It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year. "

" What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. "

Ted Cruz

Opportunity

Focus

" On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office. "

" President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together. "

" I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.' "

" 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. "

" When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.' "

" The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost. "

" Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session. "

Ted Cruz

Duck

Supreme Court

" When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada. "

Ted Cruz

Time

Beach

" An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect. "

" The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys. "

" If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe. "

" Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. "

" I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power. "

" If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ. "

" Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe. "

" It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds. "