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.
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.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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Every 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.
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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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Donald Trump says five things: everyone’s dumb, he’s going to make America great again, we’re going to win, win, win. He’s winning in the polls.
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Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow – people will wake up and we’re not going to allow a con artist to take over the party of [Abraham] Lincoln and [Ronald] Reagan.
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I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.
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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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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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Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he’s trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he’s someone who he is not.
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They’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.
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The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.
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We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.
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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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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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If 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.
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Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.
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