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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.

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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.

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

I'm Always Talking About The Issue Of Puerto Rico.i Also Spoke About It On The Senate Floor, And I Think It Should Be Given The Importance, The Priority It Deserves.

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.

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.

I Entered Politics Out Of A Desire To Serve, But I Have Always Really Wanted To Achieve Things In The Private Sector As Well. As A Father And A Husband, That Is My Primary Obligation, And That Will Always Continue, Whether I Am In The Senate Or Out Of The Senate.

But America Was Founded On The Principle That Every Person Has God-given Rights. That Power Belongs To The People. That Government Exists To Protect Our Rights And Serve Our Interests. That We Shouldn’t Be Trapped In The Circumstances Of Our Birth. That We Should Be Free To Go As Far As Our Talents And Work Can Take Us.

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

If My House Was On Fire, I Can't Compromise About Which Part Of The House I'm Going To Save. You Save The Whole House Or It Will All Burn Down. We Either Save This Country Or We Do Not.

I Would Love Nothing More Than Compromise. But I Would Say To You That Compromise That's Not A Solution Is A Waste Of Time.

I Do Think We Lost Some Of The Focus On The Attacks In San Bernardino And Focused On A Plan That Isn't Really A Plan And Is Never Going To Happen.

I Haven't Officially Spoken In Public About That Issue, But I Don't Think It's A Secret That Carlos [lópez-cantera] Has Been A Good Friend Of Mine For Many Years. I Respect Him. I Think He Has Done A Great Job As A State Representative, As Property Appraiser In South Florida, And He's Doing So Now As Lieutenant Governor Of Florida, And I Think He Would Be A Great Senator, But I Don't Have An Announcement For You Today.

Our Problem With President Obama Isn't That He's A Bad Person. By All Accounts, He Too Is A Good Husband, And A Good Father - And Thanks To Lots Of Practice, A Pretty Good Golfer.

Barack Obama's A Terrible Commander-in-chief. He Is Gutting Our Military. It's Not An Exaggeration.

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

I Think It's A Mistake To View North Korea As A Government. It Really Is More Like A Criminal Syndicate.

Americans Chose A Limited Government That Exists To Protect Our Rights, Not To Grant Them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Practical Reality That In Order For Us To Identify Homegrown Violent Extremism And Prevent It Or Root It Out Before It Takes Action, We Are Going To Need The Cooperation Of Muslim Communities In This Country.

All Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development Is Worthy Of Protection.

It's Important To Be Qualified, But If Election 2016 Is A Resume Competition, Then Hillary Clinton's Gonna Be The Next President, Because She's Been In Office And In Government Longer Than Anybody Else.

As Pope Francis Visits The United States For The Very First Time, It Is Our Privilege As Catholics And Americans To Welcome His Holiness To Our Country. Here, He Will Find People Who Are Uniquely Free.

For Years We Have Seen People Coming On Rafts, Etc., But Now We Are Seeing People Entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama And Then They Have Nowhere To Go Because Those Countries Are Not - For Example, In Nicaragua, The Border Was Closed. I've Always Said That I'm Open To A Study On How Can It Be Changed.

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.

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.

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.

[donald Trump Twitts] "lightweight Marco Rubio Was Working Hard Last Night." This Is True. "the Problem Is He's Chalker And Once A Chalker, Always A Choker," I Guess That's What He Meant To Say. He Spelled Choker, C-h-o-k-e-r.

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.

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.'

We Have Reached A Moment In Our History Where We Think That Every Problem In America Has To Have A Federal Government Solution. Every Problem In America Does Not Have A Federal Government Solution. In Fact, Most Problems In America Do Not Have A Federal Government Solution And Many Of Them Are Created By The Federal Government To Begin With.

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.

It Wouldn't Be Bad To Have The Secret Service Keeping An Eye On My Teenage Daughter. I Personally Am Not Troubled By The Fact That There Would Be A Couple Of Big Guys With Earpieces Beside Her, Just In Case.

Here We Will Solve With Laws And Dollars, Problems That Too Many People Around The World Still Must Solve With Violence And Civil War.

It Is True, We Should Not Be Discussing In A Wide Spread Way The Exact Tactics That We're Going To Use Because That Allows Terrorist To Know To Practice How To Evade Us.

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.

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...

I Think Crisis Starts With The Government Of Puerto Rico. It Has To Take Measures To Solve The Fiscal Problems That It Has, Which Are Very Serious. It's Very Basic: It's The Same Thing That Is Happening In Washington.

Presidents In Both Parties - From John F. Kennedy To Ronald Reagan - Have Known That Our Free-enterprise Economy Is The Source Of Our Middle-class Prosperity.

Here's The Bigger Problem With All This, We're Not Interrogating Anybody Right Now. Guantanamo's Being Emptied By This President. We Should Be Putting People Into Guantanamo, Not Emptying It Out, And We Shouldn't Be Releasing These Killers Who Are Rejoining The Battlefield Against The United States.

Every Single One Of Us Is The Descendant Of A Go-getter. Of Dreamers And Of Believers.

For Those Who Aspire To Live In A High Cost, High Tax, Big Government Place, Our Nation And The World Offers Plenty Of Options. Vermont, Canada And Venezuela All Offer You The Opportunity To Live In The Socialist, Big Government Paradise You Long For.

Leaders At The Highest Levels Of Our Government Are Undertaking A Deliberate And Systematic Effort To Redefine Our Government, Our Economy And Our Country.

It Should Not Be Hard To Say That Vladimir Putin's Military Has Conducted War Crimes In Aleppo Because It Is Never Acceptable For Military To Specifically Target Civilians, Which Is What's Happened There, Through The Russian Military.

Government Should Allow People To Go Out And Do The Things Americans Have Always Done, Create Jobs And Prosperity. And America's Role In The World - The World Is A Safer And Better Place When America Is The Strongest Country In The World.

I Think There's A Growing Amount Of Confusion About What Conservatism Is. And It Is Time For Us To Understand That Conservatism Is Not Built On Personalities. Conservatism Is Not Simply Built On How Angry You Might Seem From Time To Time. Conservatism Is Built On A Set Of Principles And Ideas That Our Nation Desperately Needs.

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

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.

I Am Privileged To Be A Citizen Of The Single Greatest Society In All Of Human History.

The Evidence Is Now Clear That The Majority Of People Coming Across The Border Are Not From Mexico. They're Coming From Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Those Countries Are The Source Of The People That Are Now Coming In Its Majority.

I Challenge The Republican Nominees And All Republicans To Not Just Be The Anti-illegal Immigration Party. That's Not Who We Are And That's Not Who We Should Be We Should Be The Pro-legal Immigration Party.

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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