Ted Cruz Quotes

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

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

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

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

What matters is not a simple sense of an issue’s salience, but whether a government can shape outcomes on it, where there is the greatest likelihood that the parties will actually be able to implement their policies.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

It has been my philosophy all my life that good government is good politics.

Good intentions rarely make good policy.

Those bureaucrats who are shrewd analysts of human nature, then, and who understand the way rulers operate, will, if they see that the cherished policy of their President is in grave error, tend to keep their mouths shut, and let some other sucker be the messenger of bad news and get shot down.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

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

Leadership is important in politics.

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

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.