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.
MARCO RUBIOThey 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.
MARCO RUBIOToday you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.
MARCO RUBIOEverything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent’s sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
MARCO RUBIOEvery 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.
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.
MARCO RUBIOThey’re calling me. I’m getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.
MARCO RUBIOWhat was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.
MARCO RUBIOWe are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
MARCO RUBIOThe way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.
MARCO RUBIOAmericans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
MARCO RUBIONo community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
MARCO RUBIOISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.
MARCO RUBIOIf you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.
MARCO RUBIOYou cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
MARCO RUBIOI am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?
MARCO RUBIONational 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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