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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.

-Marco Rubio

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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.

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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.

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But Since Her Earliest Days, America Has Inspired People From All Over The World. Inspired Them With The Hope That One Day Their Own Countries Would Be One Like This One.

Our Government Does Not Exist To Decide The Rights, Nor To Grant Them. Our Government Exists To Protect Them. And That Is Why We Have A Constitution That Limits The Power Of The Federal Government To A Few Specific, But Important Things And We Have Abandoned That. We Have Abandoned It In Both Political Parties.

I Am Prepared To Discuss The Things That I Believe We Need To Do Not Just To Raise The Debt Limit. Raising The Debt Limit Is The Easiest Thing. That's One Vote Away. The Hard Thing Is To Show The World We Are Serious About Putting Our Spending In Order So We Can Show People We'll Able To Pay Our Bills Down The Road.

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It's Tax Day And While Many Americans Are Filing Their Taxes With A Groan, Taxpayers In The Badger State Have Reason To Cheer. In Wisconsin, We Have Enacted More Than $2 Billion In Tax Cuts, Giving Our Citizens Much-needed Relief, Call Us Crazy Midwesterners But We Think You Know How To Spend Your Money Better Than The Government.

Roberta Jacobson Is In Charge Of A Department Within The State Department With Which, On Other Occasions, I Have Had Problems With Regarding The Answers They Gave Me.

Unlike Any Other Leader In Modern American History, We Are Led Today By A President That Has Decided To Pit Americans Against Each Other.

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

And I Can Tell You That History Will Back Up What I'm About To Say And That Is That There Is No Government Run By Conservatives, Republicans, Put Whoever You Want There, If You Give Government The Opportunity To Spend More Money Than It Has, It Will Do It. It Will Do It Every Time.

We Need To Put People On The Bench That Understand The Constitution Is Not A Living And Breathing Document. It Is To Be Interpreted As Originally Meant.

When Was The Last Time You Heard News Accounts Of A Boatload Of American Refugees Arrive On The Shores Of Another Country?

I Do Think That There Has To Be A Legal Solution, A Legal Solution On The Part Of The Nation's Legislative Branch, An Immigration Proposal.

I Don't Ever Remember Them Telling Us Or Teaching Us That The Only Way We Could Be More Successful Is If Other People Were Less Successful. They Never Inculcated The Belief That Somehow, In Order For Us To Climb The Ladder, Other People Have To Come Down From The Ladder.

[donald Trump] Hedging His Bets Because He's Used To Buying Politicians.

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

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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...

Aren't We In The Midst Of A Blitzkrieg, For A Lack Of A Better Term, Of Informational Warfare Conducted By Russian Trolls Under The Command Of Vladimir Putin?

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.

No Matter Where You're Born In Life Or What The Circumstances Are When You're Born, Like Your Parents Being Poor Or Not Connected To Power, You Have A Chance In This Country To Go As Far As Your Talent And Your Work Will Take You.

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

I Will Support Whoever Is Nominated And Named By The Party. I, At This Time, Don't Plan To Get Involved In The Contest And Let It Go Forward. I Had My Own Contest, It Didn't Result In Victory, And I Will Let Voters Decide What Will Happen. But I Will Support The Republican Candidate.

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.

Let Me Just Say The Rules Are What They Are In The Republican Party. You Have To Have X-number Of Delegates In Order To Be The Nominee. And If You Don't Have Those Number Of Delegates, Then There's A Process In Place.here Is What Would Be A Calamity, For Donald Trump To Become Our Nominee.

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

I'll Support Donald [trump] If He's The Republican Nominee.

Government Doesn't Have To Be The Enemy, But Too Much Government Has Produced A New Kind Of Inequality In America: Opportunity Inequality.

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

The Fbi Doesn't Sit Around All Day And Read Tweets. The Fbi's Going To Do Their Job. Robert Mueller's Going To Do His Job.

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.

Isis Is Winning The Propaganda War. They Are Recruiting People, Including Americans, To Join Them, With The Promise That They Are Joining This Great Apocalyptic Movement That Is Going To Defeat The West.

We've Never Been People That Go Around And Confront People That Have Been Financially Successful And Say, 'we Hate You. We Envy You Because Of How Well You're Doing.'

We Call That The American Dream, But In Fact, It's A Universal Dream Of A Better Life That People Have All Over The World. It Is A Reminder That Every Country In The World Has Rich People. What Makes America Special Is That We Have Millions And Millions Of People That Are Not Rich, That Through Hard Work And Perseverance Are Able To Be Successful.

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

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.

If I Were Running To Be Somebody, There Are A Lot Of Easier Sombodies To Be. After All, Running Against The Incumbent Governor Of Your Own Party In Your Home State Is Not The Next Logical Step In A Political Life.

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.

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.

They Made It To The Middle Class, My Dad Working As A Bartender And My Mother As A Cashier And A Maid. I Didn't Inherit Any Money From Them. But I Inherited Something Far Better - The Real Opportunity To Accomplish My Dreams.

Imagine If We Didn't Have A President Traveling The World Bad Mouthing America....that's The Un's Job.

There Is One Way, Only One Way To Solve It, And That Is Through Legislation. It Cannot Be Through An Unconstitutional Executive Order That Violates The Constitution. That Is, It Doesn't Matter Here What You Think About Immigration: Here You Cannot Violate The Nation's Constitution, Period.

Emboldened By The Progress The Republican National Committee Has Made To Ensure We Are Effectively Engaging The Hispanic Community Year-round. It's Important Our Party Listens To Voters' Concerns And Shares Our Proven Principles, Offering Real Solutions To The Issues Facing All Communities.

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.

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.

The Air Strikes Are Important [to Fight Isis], But We Need To Have An Air Force Capable Of It. And Because Of The Budget Cuts We Are Facing In This Country, We Are Going To Be Left With The Oldest And The Smallest Air Force We Have Ever Had. We Have To Reverse Those Cuts, In Addition To The Cuts To Our Navy And In Addition To The Cuts To Our Army, As Well.

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.

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.

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

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For Centuries, Faith Has Helped Us Overcome Problems And Helped Us Work To Achieve A More Perfect Union. It Has Inspired The Many Leaders Who Played A Key Role In Abolishing Slavery, Protecting Civil Rights And, Hopefully One Day, Becoming A Nation Where All Life From Conception To Natural Death Is Protected.

I Think Strong Rhetoric And Strong Action Are Two Separate Things. Anyone Can Use Tough Words. Anyone Can Go Over The Top And Say Things That Sound Strong. But Sounding Strong Is Not Enough. You Have To Know Exactly How You're Going To Do It. And If You Look At Some Of The Policies He's Talked About, They Would Not Make America Stronger.

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.

No Matter Where I Go Or What Title I May Achieve, I Will Always Be The Son Of Exiles.

Most Countries Choose To Have Government Run The Economy.

What Will Solve Our Problems Is A Specific Set Of Ideas Built On Bedrock Principles That Made America The Greatest Nation To Begin With And Applying Those Principles To The Unique Challenges Of This New Century. And Those Principles Are Not Complicated. It Begins With A Notion That This Nation Was Founded On A Powerful Spiritual Principle, That Our Rights Do Not Come From Government. Our Rights Do Not Come From Our Laws. Our Rights Do Not Come From Our Leaders. Our Rights Come From God.

I'm Not Running For Vice President, I'm Not Looking To Be Anyone's Vice President, I Want To Be The President.

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.

Poverty Does Not Create Our Social Problems...our Social Problems Create Our Poverty.

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.

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.

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

I Respect Unions, I Think They Have An Important Role To Pay And I Listen To Them, We Meet With Them, And They Raise Valid Points On A Lot Of Issues Like Worker Safety And So Forth, But I Also Respect The Right Of Individual Workers To Decide Whether They Want To Pay That Fee And Whether They Want To Join A Union.

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.

Immigration Is Not An Issue That I Read About In The Newspaper Or Watch A Documentary On Pbs Or Cnn. It's An Issues I've Lived Around My Whole Life. My Family Are Immigrants. My Wife's Family Are Immigrants. All Of My Neighbors Are Immigrants.

Oftentimes, Your Choices Are Down To Two Less Than Ideal Outcomes, But You Have To Choose Which One Is The Best One For The Country. I Personally Believe He Continues To Struggle To Articulate That.

Donald Trump's Views On Vladimir Putin, I Think, Are Troubling. And I Don't Think He Fundamentally Understands Exactly Who Vladimir Putin Is Or Exactly What He's Trying To Do. So, These Are The Kinds Of Things That I Think In Detail You Need To Begin To Understand.

I'm All For Reforming Our Higher Education System, In The 21st Century, To Have The Skills You Need For A Middle-class Job, You Need Higher Education Of Some Form Or Fashion. It May Not Be A Four-year Degree. The Problem Is He Just Wants To Pour That Additional Money Into The Broken, Existing System.

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.

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

Donald Trump Is Pulling Off A World-class Scam Here. I Mean, He's Telling People He's All These Things That He's Never Been His Entire Life. He Says He's Fighting For The Little Guy, The Working Class. He Has Spent His Entire Business Career Sticking It To Working People.

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.

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

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.

For Fifty Years Now, We Have Tried Big Government. Yet Too Many People Remain Trapped In Despair. Now, We Must Try A New Way.

We Do Have To Treat People The Way Americans Always Treat People, With The Highest Level Of Compassion And Care. But They Will Have To Be Returned, Because That Is The Law. If You Ignore That, If You Don't Apply That - As Heartbreaking As It May Be - You Are Basically Telling Another 80,000 People To Try To Come.

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.

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.

Another Clinton Presidency Would Be A Death Blow To The American Dream.

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.

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.

If Someone Can Produce The Law That Keeps Guns Out Of The Hands Of Criminals But Protects The Right Of Law-abiding Citizens To Possess Them, And Doesn't Infringe On Those Rights, I Would Consider That. But All The Proposals I've Seen Do Not Achieve That Goal. And We Are Missing A Golden Opportunity To Have An Important Debate About Violence In The Usa. Violence In Our Society Is The Problem.

We Do Need Our Defense Capabilities. It Is A Fact That The Cuts We Are Facing Today And The Cuts That Senator [ted] Cruz Would Have Supported Would Leave Us With An Even Smaller Air Force And A Smaller Navy Than The One We Are Going To Be Left With.

I Think God Has Blessed Us. He Has Blessed The Republican Party With Some Very Good Candidates. The Democrats Can't Even Find One.

You Know, Now That I Come To Think Of It, The Blizzard May Be The Best Thing To Happen To The American Economy In 12 Months.

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