We can’t win – if we nominate someone – if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we’re going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.
MARCO RUBIOMy 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.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.
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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.
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My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.
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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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Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in order to be the nominee. And if you don’t have those number of delegates, then there’s a process in place.Here is what would be a calamity, for Donald Trump to become our nominee.
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I’ll support Donald [Trump] if he’s the Republican nominee.
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Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he’s trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he’s someone who he is not.
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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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[Donald Trump twitts] “Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night.” This is true. “The problem is he’s chalker and once a chalker, always a choker,” I guess that’s what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.
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Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
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70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.
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I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.
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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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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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If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he’ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.
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Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.
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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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They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.
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Unfortunately, President Obama’s failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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National security – the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.
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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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