We have been in conversations with Gov. Romney. He's graciously reached out to our campaign and I've talked to him on the phone and we have been trading emails with him and I'm grateful for the support we are receiving all over the country. Ted Cruz More Quotes by Ted Cruz More Quotes From Ted Cruz Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God. Ted Cruz marxismgovernmentway Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make? Ted Cruz differencespartydoe On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare. Ted Cruz health-careobamacaredoctors If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket. Ted Cruz love-youcountrychildren 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. Ted Cruz eyerealroots If there's not a message that people care about, they're not going to work on the campaign. Ted Cruz campaignscarepeople Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired. Ted Cruz inspiredwantpeople If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul. Ted Cruz twopeoplelooks Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future. Ted Cruz inspiredvisionmessages In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility. Ted Cruz treatedcivility What data can tell you is if you have 10 messages, all of which you believe, it can tell you which messages are resonating and which aren't. And if you break it down even further, the truth of the matter is some messages resonate one place and other messages resonate another place. Ted Cruz datamatterbelieve Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic. Ted Cruz treatsdatacampaigns If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it. Ted Cruz datadecisionrunning Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that. Ted Cruz conservativemediareality I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary [Clinton]. They believed Donald [Trump] was the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat. Ted Cruz mediaplayerthinking The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody. Ted Cruz shakesmediagiving I'm not going to play pundit on Donald Trump and criticize him. I will say the media's treatment of that illustrates a very, very different - I mean, it dominated the news for a week to 10 days once he was the nominee. In the primary, it didn't get, seemingly, even 30 seconds of news. Ted Cruz mediaplaymean I believe in the American people. It's - I believe in trusting them, I believe in empowering them, and I think, at the end of the day, the only force strong enough to change the course we're on is the grass roots across the country. Ted Cruz strongbelievecountry Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious. Ted Cruz nastyfunlaughing On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students. Ted Cruz eightimmigrationborders
