Ted Cruz Quotes

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

I was very proud of you and your vote on the McCarran Bill. I wish I could say the same for myself.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

A town meeting is a legislature of citizens, for citizens, and by citizens. The fact that each citizen of the town is also a legislator separates the New England town meeting from all other forms of democracy.

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Our laws to be wholesome need not be enacted in a palace.

Politicians, even if their motives are not of the purest, come much nearer performing their duties than the so-called "good" citizens who stay at home [on Election Day.]

The government is just the people acting together.

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

In a democracy citizens are entitled to know what is in store for them before they vote.

Public policies in our democracy are eventually a reflection of public opinion," so public opinion must be reshaped if we are to avoid disaster.

Free citizens have two distinct sets of civil liberties. As the makers of the laws, they have duties and responsibilities which require an absolute freedom. As the subjects of the laws, they have possessions and rights, to which belongs a relative freedom.

The New Englander is attached to his township because it is strong and independent; he has an interest in it because he shares in its management; he loves it because he has no reason to complain of his lot; he invests his ambition and his future in it; in the restricted sphere within his scope, he learns to rule society; he gets to know those formalities without which freedom can advance only through revolutions, and becoming imbued with their spirit, develops a taste for order, understands the harmony of powers, and in the end accumulates clear, practical ideas about the nature of his duties and the extent of his rights.

How to Turn Democrats & Republicans Into Americans

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

… once you acknowledge the fact that Congress is after all made up of citizens elected to represent all of us, you must have some faith in their framing common sense laws.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation

The reforms we achieved did not enjoy the support of everybody, but they did receive the support of the majority needed to pass them ...

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.

The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.