Ted Cruz Quotes

It’s a strange thing in American politics that everyone who runs for office in Washington, runs against Washington.

Has Washington become so dysfunctional that even when we all agree on something, we can’t get it done?

Politics makes me sick.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Sometimes in Congress I believe change is impossible …. Democrats read too many polls to change the climate. Republicans benefit from the climate too much to want to change it.

We have seen in Washington the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock. There is nothing wrong with our country. There is much wrong with our politics ….

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

I'm setting the record straight - Chuck Schumer is nothing but a political animal who symbolizes all that's wrong with American politics.

Present day politics is getting murkier by the day.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

I had to make a movie about politics sometime in my career and it was impossible to do it seriously.

Politics is broken.