Cruz: "Stopping bad things is a significant public service."

Cruz: "There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?"

Cruz: "In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative."

Cruz: "If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy."

Cruz: "When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor."

Cruz: "If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them."

Cruz: "I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make."

Cruz: "Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative."

Cruz: "The United States has a responsibility to defend our values."

Cruz: "How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility."

Cruz: "The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here."

Cruz: "When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'"

Cruz: "I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan."

Cruz: "It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year."

Cruz: "Leading from behind doesn't work."

Cruz: "We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally."

Cruz: "My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job."

Cruz: "We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance."

Cruz: "I am a passionate civil libertarian."

Cruz: "One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs."

Cruz: "I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate."

Cruz: "The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works."

Cruz: "A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging."

Cruz: "There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration."

Cruz: "I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy."