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.
MARCO RUBIOWe don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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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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What 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.
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I’ll support Donald [Trump] if he’s the Republican nominee.
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For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options.
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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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The government doesn’t run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.
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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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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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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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Let’s be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It’s not about Donald Trump, he’s an entertaining guys, he’s the greatest show on Earth.
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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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I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate.
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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 No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is ‘How do I leave my children better off than myself?
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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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