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.
MARCO RUBIOConservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
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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.
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The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.
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The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is ‘How do I leave my children better off than myself?
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The truth is every problem can’t be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.
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My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
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When I’m president of the United States, we’re going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.
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Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
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I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
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The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.
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Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
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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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Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan – have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.
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I don’t measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.
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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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