Ted Cruz Quotes

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

All life should be cherished and protected.

I believe in the value of life. I have fought for that value. I am the only candidate to carry a right to life bill, protecting unborn victims and ensuring that all life should be protected.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

My district is well-acquainted with my commitment to protecting innocent human life.

I value human life. I don't want to see human life taken away unnecessarily.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, and one Hoosiers entrusted me to uphold.

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

Well, I'm pro-life, and I've been pretty clear about that. So I think we should do everything we can to protect the unborn.

Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.