Famous quotes by Ted Cruz:

"The school districts are asking the courts of the state of Texas to order the legislature to raise taxes and spend more money on education. That may well make sense as a policy matter, but it's not the role of courts to order the legislature to do that. Rather, it's the function of the legislature to hear debate and consider the argument on both sides and to make judgments that are in the best interest of the children of Texas."

"He was playing charades with the staff and acting out All Quiet on the Western Front. I always thought that summed up how very genuine he was. And it was a genuineness that showed in his handling of the court."

"One of my fondest memories of the chief is watching him lying prone on the floor at his house, pretending to shoot a rifle."

"We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women."

"It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation."

"Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater."

"Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message."

"I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism."

"My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves."

"Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back."

"I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor."

"The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty."

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

"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do."

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

"I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility."

"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."

"We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution."

"What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance."

"How do we turn our nation around? 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."