Ted Cruz Quotes

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

In most nations, public opinion is in revolt against foreign policy.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

By absenting the United States from the process by which international legal rules are made, the Senate has denied the country’s ability to shape them.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.