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 RUBIOWhy was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn’t more deserving than they were. I wasn’t smarter or a better person.
More Marco Rubio Quotes
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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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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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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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Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.
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American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.
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Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
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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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Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.
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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 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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Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.
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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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Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.
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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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Donald Trump says five things: everyone’s dumb, he’s going to make America great again, we’re going to win, win, win. He’s winning in the polls.
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