Ted Cruz Quotes

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

Remember that J. Edgar Hoover’s secret files began in the interests of national security and ended up being used for blackmail.

The whole process is corrupt. I vote against everything.

The problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government.

If our system of government were changed, so as to give to the Governor the duty of overriding and nullifying a definite elective choice by removing an elected official for acts committed prior to his election, with full public knowledge thereof, such change would create in Albany a power so dangerous in the hands of an unscrupulous Governor that the will of the electorate could be wholly destroyed.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

When the [political] clubhouse gets control of the seat of government, invariably the private interest outweighs the public interest, and corruption sets in.

Louisiana showed up at the top of a study of political corruption that calculated the number of convictions per capita. Georgia came out as worst on a corruption risk report from the State Integrity Investigation, which measured factors like accountability, transparency and ethics enforcement.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.