Ted Cruz Quotes

I believe in enforcing the laws as written by the Legislature, as signed by the governor.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

The President has no authority to direct anyone to disobey the law.

Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.

When a legislature has intimated its will ... that will should be recognized and obeyed.

The greatest defect in legislative history is its illegitimacy. We are governed not by legislative intention but by laws… the text should control even if the Congress intended a different result

The fact that the most arbitrary powers of the English executive must always be exercised under Act of Parliament places the government, even when armed with the widest authority, under the supervision, so to speak, of the Courts. …. Parliament is supreme legislator, but from the moment Parliament has uttered its will as lawgiver, that will becomes subject to the interpretation put upon it by the judges of the land.

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

I cannot violate the law.

They that make laws must not break them.

Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

I would never ever knowingly break the law.

Everyone should work within the ambit of law.

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as president. The executive branch enforces the law; it does not make it.