I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.
MARCO RUBIOAmericans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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This election [in 2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.
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Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father – and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
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Government’s role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.
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We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.
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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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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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The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called the American dream.
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The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.
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What 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.
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When Donald Trump’s projects go under, the first people that don’t get paid are the contractors that he’s – some of whom have gone bankrupt.
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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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Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it’s a positive step forward.
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Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.
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I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
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Donald Trump’s views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don’t think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly what he’s trying to do. So, these are the kinds of things that I think in detail you need to begin to understand.
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