Ted Cruz Quotes

My view is that politics should be on the basis of issues.

With politics, everyone - your neighbour, acquaintances, anyone you ever meet - has an opinion. Particularly about what Arvind Kejriwal should be doing.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies, then you should become a civil servant. If you have ideas and some form of ideology, then it's exciting because you can argue forward.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

If you [as a Presidential candidate] identify a problem, you are going to be expected to have a solution.

There are two kinds of politicians, those who talk and promise and those who listen and do.

Politics is my life. If I had a hobby, it would be politics.

The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

You make a good politician, but you've got to develop a philosophy.

[Campaign] Promises forecast governance.

Government is not for the short-winded.

There is nothing that is not political.