Why 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.
MARCO RUBIOOur 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
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The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs’ ability to attack. And it’s important – all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.
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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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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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If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.
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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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I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.
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The government can’t change the weather.
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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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