Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn’t more deserving than they were. I wasn’t smarter or a better person.
MARCO RUBIOGovernment 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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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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Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can’t, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
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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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First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation’s health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.
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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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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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Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
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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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We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.
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The world doesn’t just stop and say, well, let’s wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.
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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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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 idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers – that’s an old idea that’s failed every time it’s been tried.
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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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