I don’t measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.
MARCO RUBIOPresidents 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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American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.
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No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
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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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I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.
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I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.
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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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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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To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.
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Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
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Government 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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Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
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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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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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Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they’re oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.
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But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
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