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.
MARCO RUBIOI 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.
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The government doesn’t run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.
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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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Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.
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I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that’s really what’s propelled me into public service.
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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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I believe the climate is changing because there’s never been a moment where the climate is not changing.
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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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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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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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The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.
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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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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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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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Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.
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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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