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.
MARCO RUBIOWhat is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?
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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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Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
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Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.
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I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they’ve been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that’s true of many ethnic groups in this country.
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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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For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn’t done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks.
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Religious freedom is often referred to as America’s first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights.
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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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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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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 think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country’s democratic institutions.
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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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At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.
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You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
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