I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.
MARCO RUBIOVermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.
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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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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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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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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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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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How come liberals never admit that they’re liberal? They’ve now come up with a new word called ‘progressive,’ which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it’s a label.
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Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.
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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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Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can’t, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
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I’ll support Donald [Trump] if he’s the Republican nominee.
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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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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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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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What is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
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ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.
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The truth is every problem can’t be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.
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First, 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.
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I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?
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Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
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The world doesn’t just stop and say, well, let’s wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.
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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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We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.
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You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.
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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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You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
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