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.
MARCO RUBIOLet 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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I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.
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At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.
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America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
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Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.
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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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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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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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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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Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it’s a positive step forward.
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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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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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Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
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I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one.
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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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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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