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All Of These Things We're Talking About Now, It Will Take Time To Sink In. But When Voters Begin To Realize What We're Really Up Against Here, And What He's Trying To Do, I Think You're Going To See A Sea Shift Here Pretty Quickly.

-Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio

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All Of These Things We're Talking About Now, It Will Take Time To Sink In. But When Voters Begin To Realize What We're Really Up Against Here, And What He's Trying To Do, I Think You're Going To See A Sea Shift Here Pretty Quickly.

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American Government

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You Know Who A Complicated Tax Code Kills? The Guy Or Gal Trying To Start A Business Out Of The Spare Bedroom Of Their Home. So We've Got To Simplify Our Tax Code.

I Was A Member Of The Florida Legislature For Nine Years, The Speaker Of The House, Majority Leader, Majority Whip.

Majority Leader

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The Democrats Never Fight About Who Is More Like Jimmy Carter.

Ted Cruz Supported A 500-percent Increase In The Number Of H-1 Visas, The Guest Workers That Are Allowed Into This Country, And Ted Supports Doubling The Number Of Green Cards.

The Terrorists That Attacked Us In San Bernardino Was An American Citizen, Born And Raised In This Country. And I Bet You We Wish We Would Have Had Access To Five Years Of His Records So We Could See Who He Was Working With...

Every Single Day, Something Comes Out Of The [ted] Cruz Campaign That's Deceptive And Untrue, And In This Case, Goes After My Faith. This Is A Pattern Now, And I Think We're Now At A Point Where We Start Asking About Accountability.

I Intend To Do All I Can To Both Keep America Safe, And Keep America Special.

These Terrorists Aren't Trying To Kill Us Because We Offended Them. They Attack Us Because They Want To Impose Their View Of The World On As Many People As They Can, And America Is Standing In Their Way.

There Is Not A Single Person In The National Defense Apparatus Of This Country That Can Guarantee You Are Going To Be 100 Percent Right. And That's Why As President, I'll Take This Very Seriously.

The Federal Government Has The Responsibility To Protect The Nation's Public Health, To Protect Us From Foreign Threats. And It [zika] Really Is An Illness That We Are Seeing Arrive From Abroad. So It Is A Threat To Public Health, And It Is The Federal Government's Job To Cooperate In This.

It's Easy To Stand Up And Say I Will Destroy Isis; I Will Make The Sands In The Middle East Glow In The Dark. Well, That's Fine, But You Have To Have Something To Do That With.

I've Always Said That I'm Open To Changes In The Relations Between Cuba And The U.s., But That Cuba Must Make Changes Also.

Legal Immigration Is Good For America, If It's Controlled And Structured Via The Legal Process, Of Course. But The Problem Is The System We Have In Place Right Now Is Broken. For Example, It Is Completely Family Based Which Means That It's Based Not On What You Can Do Or What Talent You Have Or What Merit You Bring Or What Job You Could Fill, But Rather On Whether You Know Someone Who Already Lives Here.

I Don't Know Anything About Bankrupting Four Companies. Here's A Guy That Inherited $200 Million. If He Hadn't Inherited $200 Million, You Know Where Donald Trump Would Be Right Now? Selling Watches In Manhattan.

They're Willing To Accept Changes On The Part Of The U.s. That Contribute To More Money Entering Cuba So They Can Benefit. But In Terms Of Political Changes On The Island, An Opening, Etc., That Won't Happen, That Won't Change, And I've Always Said That, From The Beginning. I've Even Said That It Doesn't Matter How Many Tourists Who To Cuba, How Many Times The President Visits Cuba; There Won't Be Any Changes In The Cuban Government's Posture. And That Is The Same As Always.

The Second Amendment Is A Constitutional Right. I Didn't Make It Up, The Republican Party Didn't Make It Up. It's In The Constitution. I Think It's Just As Important As Any Of The Other Rights In Our Constitution.

My Dad Used To Tell Us: 'en Este Pais, Ustedes Van A Poder Lograr Todas Las Cosas Que Nosotros No Pudimos' 'in This Country, You Will Be Able To Accomplish All The Things We Never Could.'

To Tackle The Big And Relevant Issues Of The Day With Bold And Innovative Ideas Is Without Question The Most Rewarding Way To Serve.

Conservatives Aren't Anti-immigrant - Conservatives Are Pro-legal Immigration.

Legal Immigration

I Pray The Pope [francis] Can Use His Moral Authority To Inspire True Religious Freedom, And Bring Us Closer To The Day When Freedom Can Finally Take Root On The Island Country; Because Only Then Will The People Of Cuba Prosper And Have The Opportunity To Live Out God's Plan.

I Have No Intention Of Being Vice President. I Have Said It Clearly.

But While I'm Realistic About Our Challenges, I'm Optimistic About Our Future. There Are A Few Things, And If We Do Them, We're Going To Have The Greatest Era In Our History. And I Have Detailed What Those Things Are Specifically.

I Want People To Make A Lot More Than $9. $9 Is Not Enough. The Problem Is That If You Can't Do That By Mandating It In The Minimum Wage Laws. Minimum Wage Laws Never Worked In Terms Of Helping The Middle Class Attain More Prosperity.

This Election [in 2016] Is About Electing A President That Will Restore Our Economic Vibrancy So That The American Dream Can Expand To Reach More People And Change More Lives Than Ever Before. And Rebuild Our Military And Our Intelligence Programs So That We Can Remain The Strongest Nation On Earth.

That Is, I Think That What I Do, That Democracy In Venezuela Hasn't Really Worked Well Since The [ugo] Chávez Era And That It Has Gotten Even Worse Since The Last Elections, In Which The Maduro Government Lost Control Of The House, Of The Country's Legislature.

In Politics, People Throw Around The Word 'friend' So Much It Often Has Little Real Meaning. This Is Not One Of Those Times, When I Call Jeb Bush My Friend, I Mean He Is Someone I Like, Care For And Respect. He And I Have Worked Closely Together For Many Years, On Issues Big And Small. He Is A Passionate Advocate For What He Believes, And I Welcome Him To The Race.

You Know That Big Government Doesn't Hurt Big Corporations. They've Got The Best Lawyers And Accountants In The World. You Know Who Gets Destroyed By Big Government? It's The Little Guys.

First Of All, What We [in Usa] Need To Understand Is The Middle Class Is What Makes Us Different And Exceptional. Every Country Has Rich People, But What Has Made Us Different Throughout History Is That We Have This Broad-based Vibrant Middle Class.

Of Course There Are Critics Who Believe That No Matter What We Do, The Florida Dream Is Over. They Claim That We Must Accept The Idea That Inevitably Our Future Is One Of High Taxes And Big Government.

The Key That Opens That Door Is Proving To The American Public That Illegal Immigration Is Under Control. And At This Point, That Argument Cannot Be Made Because It Is Not True, It Is Not Under Control.

I Am Not Now, Nor Will I Ever Be, A Candidate For Offensive Coordinator Of Iowa.

I Spent Six Years As A Child Growing Not Far From Las Vegas.i Use To Sit On The Porch Of Our Home And Listen To My Grandfather Tell Stories As He Smoked One Of Three Daily Cigars.one Of The Things My Grandfather Instilled In Me, Was That I Was Really Blessed Because I Was A Citizen Of The Greatest Country In The History Of Our Mankind.

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.

Bashar Assad Has Been So Brutal Toward The Sunni Within Syria That He Created The Space That Led To The People Of Syria Themselves To Stand Up And Try To Overthrow Him. That Led To The Chaos Which Allowed Isis To Come In And Take Advantage Of That Situation And Grow More Powerful.

And Here's The Fact: The Fact Is It Doesn't Solve The Problem. First Of All, If You Taxed These People At 100 Percent, Basically Next Year You Said, 'look, Every Penny You Make Next Year The Government's Going To Take It From You,' It Still Doesn't Solve The Debt.

You Cannot Do Anything Without God.it's A Profound And Elemental Truth. Not, You Cannot Do Most Things Without God. You Will Not Be Able To Do Anything That You Want, Truly, In Fulfillment, Without God.

First, Undoubtedly, There Are Some People Who Are Coming From Cuba Who Immediately, Or From Any Other Country, Benefit. But, What Is The Difference Between That And Someone Who Is Coming From Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Etc.? That Is, We Are Simply Going To Say That Someone Who Comes From Another Country To The United States - The First Five Years They're Here - They Don't Qualify For Federal Benefits. They May Benefit From Local Benefits, State Benefits. Those Decisions Belong To Other Jurisdictions.

Obama Wants To Ruin America. Hillary [clinton]too.

If You Raise The Minimum Wage, You're Going To Make People More Expensive Than A Machine.

And So, Whether They Came Here On The Mayflower, On A Slave Ship, Or On An Airplane From Havana, We Are All Descendants Of The Men And Women Who Built Here The Nation That Saved The World.

Muslim Communities Are The Ones That Going To See Radicalization Happening At A Mosque Or Hear It In The Community Or Even Among Their Own Family Members. And The Other Part Is That There Is A Narrative That Isis And Other Jihadists Pose That This Is A War Between Muslims And The Rest Of The World.

My Parents Were Working Class Folks. My Dad Was A Bartender For Most Of His Life, My Mom Was A Maid And A Cashier And A Stock Clerk At Walmart. We Were Not People Of Financial Means In Terms Of Significant Financial Means. I Always Told Them, 'i Didn't Always Have What I Wanted. I Always Had What I Needed.' My Parents Always Provided That.

It Is Hard For Me To Imagine Retiring At 65 And Spending The Next Quarter Century Not Working. I Expect To Be Working, Doing Something Productive And Fulfilling.

Voters Decided Otherwise [on Me As A President Candidate] And I Will Focus On My Work Here In The Senate Because I Have Nine Months Left. And After That, Later, As A Private Citizen, I Will Continue Looking For A Way To Contribute To The Cause Of Political Conservatism To Help Our State And Our Country And The Issues That Interest Me. But I Really Don't Want To Be Nor Do I Think That I Will Be Invited To Be Any Candidate's Vice President.

I Would Like To See More Of A Democratic Opening On The Island Of Cuba, Things Like, I Don't Know, Free Press, Stop Putting People In Jail Because They Do Not Agree With You Politically, Stop Helping Countries Like North Korea Evade U.n. Sanctions, Don't Invite The Russians To Open A Military Base 90 Miles From Our Shores, Allow Independent Political Parties To Be Able To Function.

I Am As Conservative As Anyone Running In This [president's] Race, But I Am A Conservative That Can Win. That's A Big Deal.

When I'm President Of The United States, We're Going To Have A Va That Cares More About Our Veterans Than About The Bureaucrats Who Work At The Va.

The No. 1 Issue In The Hispanic American Community Is 'how Do I Leave My Children Better Off Than Myself?

Americans Believe In The Value Of Immigration. We Are The Most Generous Nation On Earth To Immigrants, Allowing Over One Million People A Year To Come Here Legally.

I Believe That We Will See Cases Like These That Will Continue Because We're Talking About Companies That Are Doing Business With A Tyranny And A Dictatorship. And When They Do Business With A Dictatorship, A Tyranny, They Will Have Problems Like This. This, I Believe, Is The Beginning Of Several Problems That There Will Be Over The Next Few Years Because We Are Talking About American Companies That Now Want To Get Cozy With This Regime, And They Will Find Themselves In Very Serious Problems Such As Those We're Seeing At This Time With The Carnival Company.

I Don't Measure Success By How Many Buildings Have My Name On It.

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If You Vote Against The Defense Authorization Act In The Senate, You Would Also Veto It As President.

And Yet, There Are Still People In American Politics Who, For Some Reason, Cling To This Belief That America Is Better Off Adopting The Economic Policies Of Nations Whose People Who Immigrate Here From There.

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