My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
MARCO RUBIOThe truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.
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You cannot do anything without God.It’s a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
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Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it’s a positive step forward.
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I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.
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When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period.
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I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that’s really what’s propelled me into public service.
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Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.
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Government doesn’t have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.
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If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It’s not going to happen.
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Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
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What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?
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To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.
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Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
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The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.
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The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs’ ability to attack. And it’s important – all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.
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And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
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