Ted Cruz Quotes

I think it makes no difference whether or not I endorse it. The Constitution is as the Supreme Court interprets it and I must conform to this and do my best to see that it is carried out in this country.

The Constitution has to be supreme.

Nothing is above the Constitution.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.

The Constitution is a document that SHOULD be beyond argument.

The Supreme Court is the living voice of the Constitution—that is, of the will of the people expressed in the fundamental law they have enacted. It is ... the conscience of the people.... It is the guarantee of the minority who, when threatened by the impatient vehemence of the majority, can appeal to this permanent law, finding the interpreter and enforcer thereof in a Court set high above the assaults of faction.

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace.

The Constitution of the United States is not a suicide pact.

I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.

Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule by laws.

I believe in the Constitution.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

The judicial power of every well-constituted government must be coextensive with the legislative, and must be capable of deciding every judicial question which grows out of the Constitution and laws.