Ted Cruz Quotes

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

[Ronald Reagan] turned the White House into a soft focus TV studio.

Odious campaigns are a national tradition, and so is complaining about them.

There’s nothing worse in politics than releasing facts one at a time.

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

Television looked at politicians and saw a bottomless pit of advertising.

I wish that the television would show the long shot. They show you an angry mob violently protesting. But if you look at a long shot, you see that it is 10 idiots in a parking lot.

Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Americans no longer gather in the streets to hear candidates; television is the new focal point of politics.

… the most famous ad produced in the history of political television

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

Facts are a thing of the past. Americans may find it impossible to debate politics clearly because of a lack of agreement on basic matters of fact: that was certainly the case in this yea'rs Presidential election [2016]. And no one has taken more advantage of this than Donal;d Trump ... Trump and his talking heads didn't create this world. It is the result of decadews-long stategy devised devised by a numbe of public affairs practitioners who recognized that lies were the most potent weapoin in the fight against progress,

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic because a fox often appears on Donald Trump's head.