Ted Cruz Quotes

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

[Warren] Harding didn't like being a Senator; he liked being in the Senate.

I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

Congress is the great commanding theater of this nation, and the threshold to whatever department of office a man is qualified to enter.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

I want to become prime minister.

I am joining politics for sure.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

I just didn't have the desire to run for political office. There are other things that I like to do, and it just wasn't my choice. But if it had been my choice, I certainly would have done it.

I'm not entering politics for name or fame.

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.