Ted Cruz Quotes

I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.

To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

Political service is important because it's about helping others help themselves. That was engrained in me from a young child.

I go where the good work is being done.

It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.

I want spend some time continuing to be a force for good.

I'm intrigued by people who make their modest living doing good things for others. Teachers, nonprofit workers, librarians... those are the heroes in our society.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

Over the years, I think, more and more, I've come to recognize that my parents - not in a didactic or explicit way, but in a very powerful way by their example - gave me a sense that government could be a force for good.

With our brains and our smarts and our altruistic capability, we can do a lot of good.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

With my platform, anyway, I want to try and do good things and want to help people.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.