They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.
MARCO RUBIOFirst, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation’s health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.
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If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It’s not going to happen.
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What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?
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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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I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.
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Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.
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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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Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father – and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
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The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs’ ability to attack. And it’s important – all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.
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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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National security – the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.
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The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called 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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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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Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
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