Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruzis an American attorney and politician; he was elected in 2012 as the junior United States Senator from Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 December 1970
CityCalgary, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
country team party
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.
promise unhappy politician
Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.
heart optimist
I'm an optimist at heart.
country believe long
I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.
kids thinking people
I think the people who have been finding it harder and harder to feed their kids - the young people who are afraid "I'm never going to have a job and be able to provide for a family," all of that can turn around and it can turn around quickly.
country religious thinking
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.
looking-forward
What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.
empowering share farmers
I want to empower farmers to expand their market share.
dog father commitment
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I`m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.
curse
A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.
giving laughing people
Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science."
believe break
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.
fighting constitution whole-life
I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.
believe politician
You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.