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Here's The Problem With Common Core. The Department Of Education, Like Every Federal Agency, Will Never Be Satisfied. They Will Not Stop With It Being A Suggestion. They Will Turn It Into A Mandate.in Fact, What They Will Begin To Say To Local Communities Is, You Will Not Get Federal Money Unless Do You Things The Way We Want You To Do It. And They Will Use Common Core Or Any Other Requirements That Exists Nationally To Force It Down The Throats Of Our People In Our States.

-Marco Rubio

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Here's The Problem With Common Core. The Department Of Education, Like Every Federal Agency, Will Never Be Satisfied. They Will Not Stop With It Being A Suggestion. They Will Turn It Into A Mandate.in Fact, What They Will Begin To Say To Local Communities Is, You Will Not Get Federal Money Unless Do You Things The Way We Want You To Do It. And They Will Use Common Core Or Any Other Requirements That Exists Nationally To Force It Down The Throats Of Our People In Our States.

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

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.

I Don't Really Like Labels In Politics, But I Will Gladly Accept The Label Of Conservatism.

This Is The Only Country In The World Where Today's Employee, Is Tomorrow's Employer.

The Vast Majority Of Americans Want A Government That Creates The Conditions For Them To Have A Chance To Get Into The Middle Class, The Kind Of Growth And The Kind Of Educational Opportunities. Most People Would - The Vast Majority Of Americans Would Much Rather Have A Job That Pays More Than A Welfare Check.

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

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.

Big Government Doesn't Help The Middle Class, It Buries It.

America Is Greatest Country; But Not Our Government.

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

Mitt Romney Will Stop The Attacks On Job Creators, Encourage Entrepreneurs To Chase Their Dreams, And Bring Good Jobs And A Better Future To All Americans.

After Eight Years Of Barack Obama And One Crazy Election, We Almost Got It Wrong. We Came This Close. But Then We Remembered Who We Were. Then We Remembered What America Was. Then We Confronted Our Challenges And Embraced Our Opportunities. And Because We Did What Needed To Be Done In 2016, Our Children Became The Freest And Most Prosperous Americans That Ever Lived.

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.

Nothing Matters If We Aren't Safe.

Nothing Matters

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.

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.

We Believe In Traditional Values Because Without Them, Without The Belief In An All-powerful God, Then The Very Founding Of Our Country Was Meaningless. It Was Founded On The Principles That Our Rights Come From God. If There Is No God, Then Where Do Your Rights Come From Other Than What Your Leaders Decide They Are?

Welders Make More Money Than Philosophers. We Need More Welders And Less Philosophers.

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

At A Time When The American Family Is Threatened As Never Before, Redefining It Away From The Union Of One Man And One Woman Only Promises To Weaken It As A Child-rearing, Values-conveying Institution.

Do Not Be Afraid To Offer Ideas That Draw Opposition. Remember, If No One Is Against Your Idea, Then Your Idea Probably Doesn't Do Anything.

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.

I Think Media Think It's Going To Be Good For Ratings, And, Two, Because They Know They Have A Lot Of Material To Work With. If Donald Trump Were To Ever Become The Nominee, Immediately, The Hounds Of Hell Would Descend On Him. They're Going To Tear Him Apart, Everything He's Ever Done, From Not Releasing His Taxes, To All Of His Failed Business Dealings.

We Will Have To Work Around The World With Less Than Ideal Governments. The Government In Saudi Arabia Is Not A Democracy, But We Will Have To Work With Them. The Government In Jordan Is Not Perfect, But We Will Have To Work With Them. But Anti-american Dictators Like [bashar] Assad, Who Help Hezbollah, Who Helped Get Those Ieds Into Iraq, If They Go, I Will Not Shed A Tear.

Let Me Begin By Saying That We Have To Understand Who Isis Is. Isis Is A Radical Sunni Group. They Cannot Just Be Defeated Through Air Strikes. Air Strikes Are A Key Component Of Defeating Them, But They Must Be Defeated On The Ground By A Ground Force. And That Ground Force Must Be Primarily Made Up Of Sunni Arabs Themselves, Sunni Arabs That Reject Them Ideologically And Confront Them Militarily.

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.

...you're Never Going To Have A Legal Immigration System That Works If You Grant Amnesty.

The President We Have Today Is A Typical Washington Politician That's Prone To Hyperbole And Decisiveness And False Outrage. And I Think It's Very Sad - Very Sad To Watch.

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.

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.

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.

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

Measure Of Success

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.

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.

Everything That I Will Ever Accomplish, I Owe To God, To My Parent's Sacrifices, And To The United States Of America.

My Hope Is That The Pope Francis Visit To Cuba Will Remind All The Cuban Citizens That They Possess Dignity And Fundamental Rights That Come From God And That The Castro Regime Has No Claim On Changing What Is 100% God-given.

Presidents Don't Have The Benefit Of Hindsight. You Have To Make Difficult Decisions Based On The Information That's Before You At That Moment.

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

Our Country Has A Lot Of Problems. When The World Looks At How Bad The United States Is And Then We Go Talk About Civil Liberties, I Do Not Think We Are A Very Good Messenger. I Don't Know That We Have A Right To Lecture. We Are Not In A Position To Be More Aggressive. We Have To Fix Our Own Mess.

From My Perspective, What I'm Really Focused On, Is Making Sure That, For The Broadest Number Of Americans Possible, Limited Government And Free Enterprise, The Principles That Have Truly Helped Build Our Country Into An Exceptional One, Is One That Is Being Sold To And Appeals To The Broadest Number Of Americans.

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.

How Can I Justify The Cuban Adjustment Act When There Are People Coming From Cuba Saying That They Come - That They Have - That They Should Be Treated Differently From Other Migrants? But They're Going Back To That Country.

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.

Humans Are Not Responsible For Climate Change In The Way Some Of People Are Trying To Make Us Believe, For The Following Reason: I Believe The Climate Is Changing Because There's Never Been A Moment Where The Climate Is Not Changing.

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.

If Someone Knows Of A Job Creator Anywhere In The World That's Looking For A High, Complex Tax Environment Or Looking For A High Regulatory Environment, I Would Like To Meet Them Because I Have Yet To Meet A Job Creator That's Looking For That, And That's What We Have.

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.

I Owe A Debt To America That I Will Never Be Able To Repay.

I Always Tell People I'm Running Against Two Democrats, One That Admits It And One That Does Not.

But Those Who Believe That What Our People Desire Is Big Government Are Living In A State Of Delusion.

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.

We [the Usa] Have A $16 Trillion Debt Which These Tax Increases Will Do Nothing To Solve And You Will Have At Least 200,000 Less Jobs Next Year Than You Have Now. And The People Who Vote For That Will Be Responsible For That Decision And They Will Held Accountable For That Terrible Public Policy.

I Could Be Anything I Wanted Because I Was An American. And I Hope That That's Really What's Propelled Me Into Public Service.

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