Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.
MARCO RUBIOThe 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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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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The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised – that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.
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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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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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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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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.
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Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I’m not worried about a hypothetical that’s never going to happen.
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Religious freedom is often referred to as America’s first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights.
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This is the only country in the world where today’s employee, is tomorrow’s employer.
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Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following reason:
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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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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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Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn’t do anything.
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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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For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn’t done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks.
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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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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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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
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I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country’s democratic institutions.
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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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If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he’ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.
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The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.
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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 most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.
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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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