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I Want People To Make A Lot More Than $9. $9 Is Not Enough. The Problem Is That If You Can't Do That By Mandating It In The Minimum Wage Laws. Minimum Wage Laws Never Worked In Terms Of Helping The Middle Class Attain More Prosperity.

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Marco Rubio

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I Want People To Make A Lot More Than $9. $9 Is Not Enough. The Problem Is That If You Can't Do That By Mandating It In The Minimum Wage Laws. Minimum Wage Laws Never Worked In Terms Of Helping The Middle Class Attain More Prosperity.

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A Whole Series Of Changes That Are In The Code, Are In The Laws Of The United States. If Cuba Changes Its Position Toward Its Own People, Well Then The Policy Of The United States Changes Also. That Is What I Would Go After. I Believe That Many Of The Changes That This President Has Made, President Obama, Are In Violation Of That Law.

If You're An American Citizen And You Decide To Join Up With Isis, We're Not Going To Read You Your Miranda Rights. You're Going To Be Treated As An Enemy Combatant, A Member Of An Army Attacking This Country.

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For Over 200 Years This Has Been A Special Country. A Unique Place Where Anyone From Anywhere Can Achieve Anything. But Now Millions Of Americans Feel Like They're Being Left Behind. Insecure In Their Future And Unsafe In The Face Of Terrorism.

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.

70% Of Children Born Into Poverty Will Never Make It To The Middle Class. The Uncomfortable Truth Is That There Are Now A Number Of Other Countries With As Much Or More Opportunity Than Ours. In Fact, More People In Canada Go On To Surpass The Income Of Their Parents Than In The United States.

We Have Enshrined In Our Founding Documents And Promoted The Fundamental Truth, All Around The World, That The Rights Of All Men, Women And Children ,not Simply Americans Come From God.‎

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.

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.

The Idea That More Taxes And More Government Spending Is The Best Way To Help Hardworking Middle Class Taxpayers - That's An Old Idea That's Failed Every Time It's Been Tried.

Being A Conservative Can Never Be About Simply An Attitude. Being A Conservative Cannot Simply Be About How Long You're Willing To Scream, How Angry You're Willing To Be Or How Many Names You're Willing To Call People. That Is Not Conservative.

In Aleppo, Mr. Putin Has Directed His Military To Conduct A Devastating Campaign. He's Targeted Schools, Markets. It's Resulted In The Death Of Thousands Of Civilians. This Is Not The First Time Mr. Putin Is Involved In Campaigns Of This Kind.

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

The American Dream Is A Term That Is Often Used But Also Often Misunderstood. It Isn't Really About Becoming Rich Or Famous. It Is About Things Much Simpler And More Fundamental Than That.

But While I'm Realistic About Our Challenges, I'm Optimistic About Our Future. There Are A Few Things, And If We Do Them, We're Going To Have The Greatest Era In Our History. And I Have Detailed What Those Things Are Specifically.

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.

If Cuba Wants Normal Relations, There's Certain Things They Need To Do Like Become A Normal Country That Respects The Rights Of Their Citizens.

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.

Donald Trump Is Not A Republican. Donald Trump Is Not A Conservative. Donald Trump Is Trying To Pull Off The Biggest Scam In American Political History, Basically A Con Job, Where He's Trying To Take Over The Republican Party By Telling People He's Someone Who He Is Not.

Because If You Look At The Debates Now, And I Have Answered It Except For 90 Seconds By And Large It's Been Viewed As Every Debate I Have Had I Have Been Among The Best People. And In Some Cases People Argue The Best Person In Those Debates. I Have Been Asked Questions You Never Could Have Anticipated.

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 A Chance To Live.

If You Elect Me President, We Will Have A President That Believes America Is The Greatest Country In The World And We Will Have A President That Acts Like It.

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.

This Is The Most Generous Country In The World When It Comes To Immigration. There Are A Million People A Year Who Legally Immigrate To The United States, And People Feel Like We're Being Taken Advantage Of.

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.

Isis Is A Radical Jihadist Group That Is Increasingly Sophisticated In Its Ability, For Example, To Radicalize American Citizens, In Its Inability To Exploit Loopholes In Our Legal Immigration System, In Its Ability To Capture And Hold Territory In The Middle East, As I Outlined Earlier, In Multiple Countries.

I Don't Buy Into The Dystopian Scenarios Of Self-aware Robots Enslaving Mankind, But You Don't Have To Be A Sci-fi Conspiracy Theorist To Acknowledge That Plenty Of Good, Well-paying Jobs Are Being Taken Over By Machines.

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.

I Think That The Government Of [nicolas] Maduro Has Argued To Stage A Coup In Venezuela, That This Is Obviously A Coup Against The Country's Democratic Institutions.

America Is Not Perfect. It Took A Bloody Civil War To Free Over 4 Million African Americans Who Lived Enslaved. It Took Another Hundred Years After That Before They Achieved Full Equality Under The Law.

Equality Under The Law

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

The Government Doesn't Run The Economy. The Economy Is Run By The Private Sector. The Job Of The President Is To Ensure We [the State] Have Policies That Allow The Private Sector To Grow And Prosper.

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

Let Me Tell You Something, Last Night In The Debate, During One Of The Breaks, Two Of The Breaks, Donald Trump Went Backstage... He Asked For A Full Length Mirror. I Don't Know Why Because The Podium Goes Up To Here. He Wanted A Full Length Mirror. Maybe To Make Sure His Pants Weren't Wet. I Don't Know.

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.

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.

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.

We Need American Foreign Policy That Tells The World Very Clearly That It Is Bad To Be Our Enemy And Good To Be Our Friend.

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.

So The Majority Of Americans Are Conservatives. They Believe In Things Like The Constitution. I Know That's Weird To Some People But They Believe In It.

We've Learned More From The Newspapers Sometimes Than We Do From Our Open Hearings, For Sure.

I Run For President Because I Believe That We Can't Just Save The American Dream; We Can Expand It To Reach More People And Change More Lives Than Ever Before.

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

I Tell People All The Time That I Was Born And Raised In Ronald Reagan's America.

I've Got A Record In Florida. I'm Proud Of My Dad, And I'm Certainly Proud Of My Brother. In Florida, They Called Me Jeb, Because I Earned It.

Donald Trump Is A World-class Con Artist. He Conned All These People That Signed Up For Trump University. Now He's Trying To Do The Same Thing To Republican Voters. He's Trying To Convince Them That Somehow He's The Guy That Is Going To Stand Up To Illegal Immigration, But He Hires Illegal Immigrants, That He's Fighting For American Workers, But He's Hiring Foreign Workers For His Hotels, That He's Going To Bring Back Jobs From China And From Mexico, But, In Fact, He's Creating Jobs In China And Mexico, Because That's Where All Of His Suits And Ties That He Sells Are Made.

I Believe That There Are Barriers, Educational Barriers, Cultural Barriers, Societal Barriers, That Are Keeping People From Accessing The Promise Of A Vibrant Free Enterprise Economy.

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.

Jay-z's A Guy That Wears The Che Guevara T-shirt And He Doesn't Realize Che Guevara Was A Racist. Che Guevara Was A Murderer And A Killer. So Look, He's An Entertainer, Obviously. He's Not In The Middle Of Any Public Discourse Here. But I Think It's Important To Point Out When People Take Stances Like This That Are Absurd.

We Have Also Seen An Economic Crisis That Is Very Serious Within Venezuela, We Are Seeing Cutbacks, I Believe Even More Are Coming In Terms Of Electricity. Government Employees No Longer Work On Fridays, And That Has Not Been Enough.

Donald Trump's Habit Of Making Offensive And Outlandish Statements Will Not Bring Americans Together.

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.

I Think The Immigration System We Have Now Is Terrible For The United States Of America. We Have A Legal Immigration System That Does Not Work. It Does Not Reflect The Economic Needs Of This Country In The 21st Century. It Needs To Be Modernized.

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

We Must Change The Decisions We Are Making By Changing The People Who Are Making Them.

I Do Not Believe That Human Activity Is Causing These Dramatic Changes To Our Climate The Way These Scientists Are Portraying It... And I Do Not Believe That The Laws That They Propose We Pass Will Do Anything About It - Except, They Will Destroy Our Economy.

Cuba Continues To Be A Source Of Instability In The Region. For Example, Historic Numbers Of People Are Fleeing The Island Of Cuba, Putting Migratory Pressure On The United States. Number Two, This Cuban Government Is Anti-american. They Sponsor - They Allow The Chinese And The Russians To Conduct Espionage, Electronic Espionage And Others From The Island Of Cuba.

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.

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

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.

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.

We Focus So Much On How Immigrants Can Change America That We Forget That America Has Always Changed Immigrants Even More.

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

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.

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.

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.

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