Ted Cruz Quotes

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

Political correctness is a war on noticing.

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

It's kinda ridiculous what you can't say nowadays. You really can't say anything you believe! I think it's fricking ridiculous how sensitive everyone is to everything, how much things are frowned upon. How much stuff will cost you nowadays. I think it's fricking ridiculous that we can't - there's certain topics that you can't really say how you feel about.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

As you can imagine, there were people who were like, "Why are you being the PC cop?" or, "This is Orwellian to tell people to stop using the word 'illegal' to refer to people." Well, I just want people to think it through.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.