You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
MARCO RUBIOThe 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.
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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Government’s role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.
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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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I’m not going to change who I am. I’m not going to change why I’m running… I’m running for president [in 2016], and I’m running because we can’t afford another four years like the last eight years.
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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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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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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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Conservatism 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.
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Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.
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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
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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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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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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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I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
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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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