Ted Cruz Quotes

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Those who go along get along.

Whenever you accept our views we shall be in full agreement with you.

I always voted at my party's call, And never thought of thinking for myself at all.

The [Russian] Communist Party decided that policy. As a good communist, I have to go along.

The committee will be composed of open-minded people who agree with me.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

Most people resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and follow him in all his motions, and windings, and turnings, even at the expense of my consciences and judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

More than a few Republicans in the United States Senate seem to have contracted a severe case of what Harry Truman called 'Potomac Fever' (wanting to go along to get along in Washington).

I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.

We are a big-tent party, but we have to come together as a caucus and say 'These are the things we can agree on' and push forward.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.