Ted Cruz Quotes

President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.

There’s nothing wrong with a politician saying ‘I don’t know.’ Especially in a disaster there is nothing wrong with saying ‘I don’t know.’

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.