Ted Cruz Quotes

I don't think people realize how many decisions the president of the United States makes about military action.

Our foreign policy and our military policy is make sure that we fight on foreign shores and not shores here.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

I think that [Obama] sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world. I think that he looks at the United States military and sees it as a threatening application around the world than actually as a useful tool.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.

The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?

Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.

What's the point of having this superb military your always talking about if we can’t use it?

The Pentagon is always going to be the last to want to intervene. It is up to the civilians to tell us what they want to do and we’ll figure out how to do it.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Our military is trained to kill our enemies in foreign lands, not to do civilian law enforcement within our country.

I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

Now that Washington once again has a tangible adversary -- variously described as ‘freedom-hating terrorists,’ ‘Salafist jihadis,’ or ‘Islamofascists’ -- U.S. leaders have convinced the American public that foreign policy is an ‘us-versus-them’ contact sport in which the primary tactics are military and coercive

America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance.