Ted Cruz Quotes

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

People push my buttons, so I'm going to react.

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

When Donald Trump is in trouble, he starts yelling, he starts screaming. He starts insulting. He starts cursing.

Ma'am, when I got up this morning, I didn't want to be jackass. You just pushed my jackass button.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.

Dealing with sledging is an individual thing. For me, I am not going to take abuse from David Warner or anyone else and not have a word back. But it is down to the person.

You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.

You can insult me - you can judge me on the football pitch - that's normal. But don't touch my family. Don't touch my parents. I love them more than everything on this earth.

People can say whatever they want about me. They can call me ugly. But don't talk about my child.

I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm.

Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.

I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.

When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.

The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the ear, saying: 'What are you going to do about that, faggot?' That is cowardice. When the bullets start flying past that jock's saucer-shaped ears, that's not cowardice. That's payback.

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.