Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn’t do anything.
MARCO RUBIOTo help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.
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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 triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs’ ability to attack. And it’s important – all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.
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Around the world, America’s influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.
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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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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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No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
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Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent’s sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
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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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The government can’t change the weather.
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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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If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we’re going to find out everything they know, because when I’m president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.
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ISIS 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.
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How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.
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I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
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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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To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.
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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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We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.
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This is the only country in the world where today’s employee, is tomorrow’s employer.
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I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.
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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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Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
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The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.
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My Dad used to tell us: ‘En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos’ ‘In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.’
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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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