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For Over Two Centuries, Each Generation Of Americans Before Us Confronted And Solved Problems. They Embraced Opportunities And Americans Have Never Had It Easy. This Was A Nation Founded By Declaring Independence For The Most Powerful Empire In The World. This Was A Nation That Faced A Divisive And Bloody Civil War, Two Great World Wars, A Long Cold War.

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For Over Two Centuries, Each Generation Of Americans Before Us Confronted And Solved Problems. They Embraced Opportunities And Americans Have Never Had It Easy. This Was A Nation Founded By Declaring Independence For The Most Powerful Empire In The World. This Was A Nation That Faced A Divisive And Bloody Civil War, Two Great World Wars, A Long Cold War.

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I Didn't Want My Next U.s. Senator To Be Someone Who Was Going To Go Up There And Do The Same Stuff People Have Been Doing. But I Guess Our Argument Is It's Okay To Be Angry And Upset At Washington.

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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.'

I Think Republicans Need To Do A Better Job Of Reaching Out To Everyone In The United States. Politics Is Always About Getting The Support Of The Majority Of Our People.

I Think There Are Many In The Democratic Party That Want Immigration To Be Unsolved Issue At Least For The Time Being, Because It's More Useful As A Campaign Issue Than It Is As A Solved Issue.

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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Big Government Helps The People Who Have Made It. It Doesn't Help The People Who Are Trying To Make It; It Crushes The People Who Are Trying To Make It.

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When You're The Commander In Chief, You're The Commander In Chief On Day One. You Don't Get Like A Six-month Grace Period. The World Doesn't Just Stop And Say, Well, Let's Wait Until The President Catches Up Before We Start Challenging America.

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In 2013 We Had Never Faced A Crisis Like The Syrian Refugee Crisis Now. Up Until That Point, A Refugee Meant Someone Fleeing Oppression, Fleeing Communism Like It Is In My Community.

The Reason Why I'm Here Today Is To Explain Why I Am Running And What I Will Do If You Give Me The Honor And The Privilege Of Representing You In The United States Senate. Now I'm Running For The United State Senate For A Simple Reason, And That Is...i Want To Win A Nobel Peace Prize.

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I'm Proud Of The Fact That The Republican Party Is The Pro-life Party On The Issue Of Life.

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.

Puerto Rico Is A Government That Is Spending Money That It Doesn't Have. What's Coming In And What's Going Out Don't Match. That Is, What They Are Receiving In Taxes Is Not Sufficient To Cover The Spending That They Are Taking On. And Any Entity That Does That, Whether A Family, A Business, A Government, Is Going To Go Broke And Bankrupt. They Are Asking To Be Given The Right To Declare Bankruptcy, Which I Think Should Be An Option, As A Last Resort, If There Is No Other Resource.

A Sense That With The Blessings That God Bestowed Upon This Land, Came The Responsibility To Make The World A Better Place.

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.

I'm Not Poor, But I'm Not Rich, Either.

America Is Greatest Country; But Not Our Government.

We Do Need Curriculum Reform. And It Should Happen At The State And Local Level. That Is Where Educational Policy Belongs, Because If A Parent Is Unhappy With What Their Child Is Being Taught In School, They Can Go To That Local School Board Or Their State Legislature, Or Their Governor And Get It Changed.

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.

I'm Going To Be Working The Next 25 Or 30 Years. People Like Me, If We Want, Number One, For No Benefit Reductions For Our Parents And Our Grandparents, Number Two, For The System To Survive And Exist For Us, And, More Importantly, Number Three, For The System To Exist For Us Children, We Are Going To Have To Make Reforms To That System.

Any Time You Can Degrade Or Take Away The Top Leadership Of An Organization, It's A Positive Step Forward.

We Can't Win - If We Nominate Someone - If We Nominate Someone That Half Of The Republican Party Hates, We're Going To Be Fighting Against Each Other All The Way To November [of 2016]. We Will Never Win That Way.

You Have To Deal With The Reality That In The Political Process, People Are Going To Vote Based On What They're Hearing From Their Constituents And Others.

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.

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.

Now, The Political Class Tries To Make Sense Of All Of This, But They Can't, Because Never Has The Political Class Or The Mainstream Media That Covers Them Been More Out Of Touch With The American People Than They Are Today.

The World Is A Safer And Better Place That The United States Is The Strongest Military Power On Earth. The Stronger You Are, The Less Likelihood You'll Ever Have To Use It.

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.

This 2016 Election Better Be About The Future, Not The Past. It Better Be About The Issues Our Nation And The World Is Facing Today, Not Simply The Issues We Once Faced.

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.

If I Thought That Raising The Minimum Wage Was The Best Way To Help People Increase Their Pay, I Would Be All For It, But It Isn't. If You Raise The Minimum Wage, You're Going To Make People More Expensive Than A Machine. And That Means All This Automation That's Replacing Jobs And People Is Only Going To Be Accelerated.

I Asked The American People Do Not Give In To The Fear. Do Not Give Into The Frustration. We Can Disagree About Public Policy. We Can Disagree About It Vibrantly, Passionately, But We Are A Hopeful People. And We Have Every Right To Be Hopeful.

Conservatism Means Re-embracing True Free Enterprise. True Free Enterprise, Which I Believe And Not Because My Parents Were Wealthy, Not Because I Inherited Millions Of Dollars Because I Did Not, But Because As I Walked On To The Stage Here Today, I Walked Through The Kitchen Of This Hotel And I Met People And Shook The Hands Of People Who Are Doing The Jobs My Parents Once Did.

Our Higher Education System Is Controlled By What Amounts To A Cartel Of Existing Colleges And Universities, Which Use Their Power Over The Accreditation Process To Block Innovative, Low-cost Competitors From Entering The Market.

For Here In America, Those Who Once Had No Hope Will Give Their Kids The Chance At A Life They Always Wanted For Themselves. Here In America, Generations Of Unfulfilled Dreams Will Finally Come To Pass.

Appeasing The Castro Brothers Will Only Cause Other Tyrants From Caracas To Tehran To Pyongyang To See That They Can Take Advantage Of President Obama's Naiveté During His Final Two Years In Office. As A Result, America Will Be Less Safe As A Result Of The President's Change In Policy.

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.

They [ The Government Of Puerto Rico] Are Asking To Be Given The Right To Declare Bankruptcy, Which I Think Should Be An Option, As A Last Resort, If There Is No Other Resource. But There Also Need To Be Measures, Changes Within The Government Of Puerto Rico, In The Ways That The Island's Funds Are Administered, Not Just To Deal With This Budget Issue, But Also To Have, To Attract The Economic Growth That Is Necessary For Puerto Rico To Begin To Grow Economically. They Are Losing Population, And They Are Losing Economically.

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

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

This Is The Greatest Society In All Of Human History, The Greatest Country Ever. Many Of The Decisions Being Made In Washington Today By Both Parties Are Threatening That Greatness. And If We Stay On This Road We're On Right Now, Our Children Are Going To Be The First Americans Ever To Inherit A Diminished Country.

Even When We Are Deeply Divided Over Important Issues Facing Our Country And The World, "in God We Trust" For The Guidance And Wisdom To Do What's Both Right And Necessary For Our Republic.

I Think That The Person Who Is Going To Be Nominated Will Be Nominated By The Convention.

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.

We Should Be The Pro-legal Immigration Party. A Party That Has A Positive Platform And Agenda On How We Can Create A Legal Immigration System That Works For Immigrants And Works For America.

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.

Let's Be Clear About What This [presidential] Campaign Is About. It's Not About Donald Trump, He's An Entertaining Guys, He's The Greatest Show On Earth.

I Want Immigration Reform To Pass, I Want People To Be Able To Come Out Of The Shadows.

The Children Of The Reagan Revolution Are Ready To Assume The Mantle Of Leadership.

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.

By The Way On Economics, South Carolina Is An Example To The Country Of What We Should Be Doing As Americans. This Country Has A Vast Manufacturing Base. It Is Growing In Manufacturing Where America Is Shrinking And It's Because They Have Reduced Taxes And Lower Regulatory Burdens And Been Pro-business.

The Reason We Have A Cuban Adjustment Act Is Because, At The Beginning, They [migrants] Were Fleeing Political Persecution.

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.

Faith Greatly Shaped America's Role In The World. We Are A Country That Embodies The Bible Verse From Luke Chapter 12, Verse 48 "from Everyone Who Has Been Given Much, Much Will Be Demanded."

National Security - The Military Is The First Thing We Should Spend Money On. You Have To Fully Fund That First. And Then You Should Be Paying For Everything Else.

We Live In A Society Obsessed With Public Opinion. But Leadership Has Never Been About Popularity.

I Believe In Freedom Of Speech. And I Believe That Spending On Political Campaigns Is A Form Of Political Speech That Is Protected Under The Constitution.

Freedom Of Speech

This Opportunity – To Make It To The Middle Class Or Beyond No Matter Where You Start Out In Life – It Isn't Bestowed On Us From Washington. It Comes From A Vibrant Free Economy Where People Can Risk Their Own Money To Open A Business.

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.

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.

What I'm Not - I Can't Control Other People's Campaigns. If They Decide That's What They Want To Do With Their Time And Money, They Certainly Have A Right To Do It.

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