Quote

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Ted Cruz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ted Cruz
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
Law Clerk
Lawyer
Politician
United States Senator
Calgary
Canada
Rafael Edward Cruz
Rafael Edward Ted Cruz
Liberty
Fragile
Child
Immigrants
Taken
Oppression
Away
Enormous
Children
Easily
Think
Blessing
Thinking
Realize
Fled
Realizing
Immigrant

More quotes by Ted Cruz

Image
The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.
Ted Cruz
Image
What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.
Ted Cruz
Image
We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.
Ted Cruz
Image
Obama has been the most lawless president we've ever had.
Ted Cruz
Image
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
Ted Cruz
Image
Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.
Ted Cruz
Image
How do we get America back to work? 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.
Ted Cruz
Image
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.
Ted Cruz
Image
Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.
Ted Cruz
Image
The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.
Ted Cruz
Image
I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.
Ted Cruz
Image
If the Republican Party stands for individual liberty, if we defend the Bill of Rights, if we stand for keeping this country safe, then we deserve to win, and if we don't, we deserve to lose. It shouldn't be - it's not just a game of blue team/red team. It is actually about making a difference in people's lives.
Ted Cruz
Image
On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.
Ted Cruz
Image
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.
Ted Cruz
Image
I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.
Ted Cruz
Image
Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, Liar. Their strategy is simply to yell, Liar, liar, liar.
Ted Cruz
Image
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
Image
I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.
Ted Cruz
Image
I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.
Ted Cruz
Image
We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.
Ted Cruz