I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. Ted Cruz More Quotes by Ted Cruz More Quotes From Ted Cruz I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me. Ted Cruz christianmotherjesus The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump's henchmen, and I don't think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash. Ted Cruz lyingamericathinking The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys. Ted Cruz phonescellslaw A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that. Ted Cruz colleaguescurse Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism. Ted Cruz responsibilityrightsjustice I know very much what I believe. Ted Cruz i-believeknowsbelieve You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys. Ted Cruz focusguylaw Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do. Ted Cruz entrepreneurgovernmentjobs If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict. If you were called up to service, they said bring your musket. And indeed, the First Congress passed a law. You want to know the first gun control law in America? First Congress passed a law mandating that all able-bodied men must own a musket. Ted Cruz gunmilitarymen If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him. Ted Cruz campaignsrealviews We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records. Ted Cruz collectionsrecords The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context. Ted Cruz second-amendmentweaponsmilitary While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other. Ted Cruz age-differencedifferencesgay The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else. Ted Cruz libertydnaopportunity In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists. Ted Cruz enough-timeimmigrationthinking I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible. Ted Cruz receivingreadingblessed If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington? Ted Cruz earthwantgiving 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 takenblessingchildren Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan. Ted Cruz wisemathpeople I want to empower farmers to expand their market share. Ted Cruz empoweringsharewant
