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Cubans Who Arrive And Can Prove That They Are Refugees Who Are Truly Fleeing Political Persecution Will Continue To Qualify As Refugees. The Only Thing That I've Asked For Is To Do Away With Automatic Benefits Granted To Someone, Basically, Cubans Who Come From Cuba, If It Cannot Be Verified That They Are Refugees Fleeing Political Persecution, So They Will Be Treated The Same Way As Any Other Immigrant Who Arrives In The United States, Which Is That Legal Immigrants In The United States Don't Have The Right To Any Federal Benefits For Five Years.

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Cubans Who Arrive And Can Prove That They Are Refugees Who Are Truly Fleeing Political Persecution Will Continue To Qualify As Refugees. The Only Thing That I've Asked For Is To Do Away With Automatic Benefits Granted To Someone, Basically, Cubans Who Come From Cuba, If It Cannot Be Verified That They Are Refugees Fleeing Political Persecution, So They Will Be Treated The Same Way As Any Other Immigrant Who Arrives In The United States, Which Is That Legal Immigrants In The United States Don't Have The Right To Any Federal Benefits For Five Years.

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We Have Seen How Zika Has Become A Very Serious Problem In Brazil, In Other Parts Of Latin America, In This Hemisphere. During The Summer It Can Arrive Very Quickly Here In South Florida, In The Whole State. In A Very Hot Climate In Summer, Where Mosquitos Begin To Spread Very Quickly, It's A Very Serious Threat.

[barack] Obama Has Betrayed Israel, Gutted The Military, And Apologized On Ten World Tours.

It's Not In Our Nature. Americans Have Never Been A People That Drive Through A Nice Neighborhood And Say, 'oh, I Hate The People Who Live In These Nice Houses.'

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

I`ve Had Over $20 Million Spent Attacking Me. That`s Not Grassroots Money. That`s Money From The Establishment. We Have Always Had To Take On The Establishment. We`ll Do It Again, Because The Republican Party Needs To Turn The Page And Move Forward. And We Will.

Under Barack Obama, The Only 'change' Is That 'hope' Has Been Hard To Find. Now Millions Of Americans Are Insecure About Their Future. But Instead Of Inspiring Us By Reminding Us Of What Makes Us Special, He Divides Us Against Each Other. He Tells Americans They're Worse Off Because Others Are Better Off. That People Got Rich By Making Others Poor.

I've Seen How The Left Has Used It To Accuse Opponents Of Their Version Of Reform Of Being Bigots And Racists.

Donald Trump Is Not Going To Be The Nominee, Because We Are Not Going To Allow - People Will Wake Up And We're Not Going To Allow A Con Artist To Take Over The Party Of [abraham] Lincoln And [ronald] Reagan.

We Are Getting Thousands And Thousands Of Professionals, Very Highly-trained People, From Puerto Rico Who Are Now Living In Florida, And Who Have Obviously Contributed A Lot To This State, But The Island Is Losing That Population.

My Dad Was A Bartender. My Mom Was A Cashier, A Maid And A Stock Clerk At K-mart. They Never Made It Big. They Were Never Rich. And Yet They Were Successful. Because Just A Few Decades Removed From Hopelessness, They Made Possible For Us All The Things That Had Been Impossible For Them.

The Media Coverage For Donald Trump Has Been Almost Cheerleading Over The Last Couple Weeks. And I'm Convinced It's Because Many In The Press Want Him To Be The Nominee.

What Does Have A Chance Of Becoming Law Is A Process That Begins With Securing The Border. Currently The Border Is Not Secure And Not Just Immigrants Are Coming Across, But Also Drugs, Weapons A Whole Series Of Problems. And I Think That If You Can Prove To The American People That Illegal Immigration Is Under Control, I Think That The American People Are Willing To Do Something Very Reasonable About People Who Have Been Here For Many Years, Who Are Not Criminals, Who Are Going To Pay A Fine, Who Are Going To Pay Taxes, Who Are Working.

Even If We Didn't Have A Single Person In The Usa In Violation Of Immigration Laws, We'd Still Have To Do Immigration Reform, Because Our Legal Immigration System Is Broken. It's Not Good For Anybody.

Let's Stop Talking About New Taxes And Start Talking About Creating New Taxpayers, Which Basically Means Jobs.

After All, The U.s. Senate Already Has One Arlen Specter Too Many.

Florida Is Not Going To Vote For A Con Artist Like Donald Trump.

We Understand That Isis Is A Group That's Growing In Its Governance Of Territory. It's Not Just Iraq And Syria. They Are Now A Predominant Group In Libya. They Are Beginning To Pop Up In Afghanistan. They Are Increasingly Involved Now In Attacks In Yemen. They Have Jordan In Their Sights. This Group Needs To Be Confronted With Serious Proposals.

We Chose More Freedom Instead Of More Government. We Chose The Principles Of Our Founding To Solve The Challenges Of Our Time. We Chose A Special Man To Lead Us In A Special Time. We Chose Mitt Romney To Lead Our Nation.

I Believe That Every Single Human Being Is Entitled To The Protection Of Our Laws, Whether They Can Vote Or Not. Whether They Can Speak Or Not. Whether They Can Hire A Lawyer Or Not. Whether They Have A Birth Certificate Or Not. And I Think Future Generations Will Look Back At This History Of Our Country And Call Us Barbarians For Murdering Millions Of Babies Who We Never Gave Them A Chance To Live.

Donald Trump Has The Benefit Of The Fact That He's Dominated Media Coverage, I Mean, Literally Dominated Media Coverage Because Of The Outrageous Things He Says And So Forth. That's Going To End Here. There's Going To Be Real Fight Now For The Heart And Soul Of The Republican Party And The Conservative Movement. And It Is Not - I Will Do Whatever It Takes To Prevent It From Being Taken Over By A Con Artist.

We Need To Ensure That Our Foreign Policy Towards Cuba Incentivizes And Makes It Easier For There To Be A Democratic Transition. That Is How I Would Examine Our Foreign Policy Towards Cuba.

If Support For Traditional Marriage Is Bigotry, Then Barack Obama Was A Bigot Until Just Before The 2012 Election.

[cuba's Goverment] Is An Anti-american Government.

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Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama's Strategy Is To Lead From Behind. It Sounds Like What He Is Outlining Is Not To Lead At All. We Cannot Continue To Outsource Foreign Policy. We Must Lead. We Are The Most Powerful Nation In The World. We Need To Begin To Act Like It, Again.

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.

America Is Still The Land Of Opportunity For Most, But It Is Not A Land Of Opportunity For All. If We Are To Remain An Exceptional Nation, We Must Close This Gap In Opportunity.

We Don't Need New Taxes. We Need New Taxpayers, People That Are Gainfully Employed, Making Money And Paying Into The Tax System. And Then We Need A Government That Has The Discipline To Take That Additional Revenue And Use It To Pay Down The Debt And Never Grow It Again.

Their Rhetoric Is The Same As Always. The Only Difference Is That The United States Has Granted Them A Whole Series Of Concessions, And That The Cuban Government Has Not Changed At All. And That Is Part Of The Same Thing I've Always Said, This Isn't Different, Nothing Has Changed On The Part Of The Cuban Government, Absolutely Nothing Has Changed On Its Part.

I Promise You, The Next Time There Is Attack On - An Attack On This Country, The First Thing People Are Going To Want To Know Is, Why Didn't We Know About It And Why Didn't We Stop It? And The Answer Better Not Be Because We Didn't Have Access To Records Or Information That Would Have Allowed Us To Identify These Killers Before They Attacked.

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. Government's Role In Society Is To Protect These Rights And Ensure That We Are Safe From Religious Persecution And Discrimination.

What Is The Conservative Movement? It's Pretty Straightforward. We Believe That The Way Prosperity Is Created Is When People Have The Freedom And The Opportunity To Pursue Their Dreams.

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

I've Always Said That The Cuban Regime Will Not Change Politically.

There Are People That Borrow $36,000 To Go To Trump University, And They Are Suing Him Now. Thirty-six Thousand Dollars To Go A University, That's A Fake School.

We Can't Be Playing Around With These Issues [zika Disease], Because This Can Become Very Serious Very Quickly, As We Have Seen In Brazil And Other Countries. The Funds Are Going To Be Used At The State Level, But It Is Important For The Federal Government To Cooperate In The Federal Government's Role.

I Would Say To You That Americans Of Hispanic Descent Want Desperately To Give Their Children The Chances They Never Had.

If A Regular Law Enforcement Agency Wants Your Phone Records, All They Have To Do Is Issue A Subpoena. But Now The Intelligence Agency Is Not Able To Quickly Gather Records And Look At Them To See Who These Terrorists Are Calling.

Our National Motto Is 'in God We Trust,' Reminding Us That Faith In Our Creator Is The Most Important American Value Of All.

This President [barack Obama] Is Undermining The Constitutional Basis Of This Government. This President Is Undermining Our Military. He Is Undermining Our Standing In The World....the Damage He Has Done To America Is Extraordinary.

A President Cannot Make Decision On What Someone Might Know In The Future.

I Love The People Of Venezuela. I Want That Country To Have Freedom. I Want It To Have Human Rights And To Be Banned By A Dictator Like Nicolas Maduro Is, To Me, A Badge Of Honor.

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.

Here Is The Thing People Do Not Understand. And I Have Said This Repeatedly. I Am Not Against Changes In U.s. Policy Towards Cuba. I Just Want To Make Sure That Those Changes Are Reciprocal, That They're Reciprocated By The Cuban Government. That Was Not Part Of What President Obama Did.

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.

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's Never Going To Be A Time Where The Republican Party Rallies Around And Says You Have To Get Out Or Anyone Has To Get Out For Purposes Of Rallying Around Donald Trump.

2010 Is Not Just A Choice Between Republicans And Democrats. 2010 Is Not Just A Choice Between Liberals And Conservatives. 2010 Is A Referendum On The Very Identity Of Our Nation.

Are You Aware That People Who Oppose Vladimir Putin Wind Up Dead All Over The World, Poisoned, Shot In The Back Of The Head?

Let's Be Honest - Bill Murray Was Onto Something When He Laughed At Andie Macdowell's Degree In 19th Century French Poetry In 'groundhog Day'.

Barack Obama Hasn't Kept Us Safe. The Problem Is We Had An Attack In San Bernardino. And We Were Paying Attention To The Most Important Issue We Have Faced In A Decade Since 9/11, And Then All The Talk Was About This Proposal, Which Isn't Going To Happen.

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.

Cubans Must Prove That They're Political Refugees. And If They Can Prove That They're Really Fleeing Persecution, Well, They Would Qualify As Refugees.

Let's Stop Big Government Energy Mandates Like Cap-and-trade, And Instead Trust The American Innovator To Make Us Energy Independent.

We Need To Have A Regulatory Budget In America That Limits The Amount Of Regulations On Our Economy. We Need To Repeal And Replace Obamacare And We Need To Improve Higher Education So That People Can Have Access To The Skills They Need For 21st Century Jobs.

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.

You Know What The Fastest Growing Religion In America Is? Statism. The Growing Reliance On Government.

I Haven't Thought About Aspirations For The Future. I Like Politics, I Like Serving The Public, And We'll See If God Offers Us Another Opportunity In The Future.

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