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.
MARCO RUBIODo 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.
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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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
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The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.
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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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My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
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American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.
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Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.
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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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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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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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Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
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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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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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I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
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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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