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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.

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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.

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I Can Tell You What I Believe, Particularly About Mexican-americans: They Are A Community That Has Contributed Greatly To This Country, They Work Extremely Hard, They've Been Very Productive Citizens Of Our Country, And I Think That's True Of Many Ethnic Groups In This Country.

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.

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.

There Are A Lot Of Other People Out There That Some Of Us Wish Had Run For President, But They Didn't. I Think Mitt Romney Would Be A Fine President, And He'd Be Way Better Than The Guy Who's There Right Now.

If You're Running To Be President Of The United States, You Can't Just Tell People You're Going To Make America Great Again. I Think You Need To Begin To Explain Exactly How You're Going To Do It Policy-wise. We're Not Going To Win A General Election With A Candidate That Refuses To Detail Policy.

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.

You Cannot Give Up On The American Dream. We Cannot Allow Our Fears And Our Disappointments To Lead Us Into Silence And Into Inaction.

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.

Even Today With The Problems That We Face, Who Would You Rather Be? Which Country Would You Trade Places With?

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.

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.

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.

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

Ted [cruz], You Support Legalizing People Who Are In This Country Illegally.

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.

Mitt Romney Understands Free Enterprise, He Has Worked In It. He Has Seen Companies Succeed And He Has Seen Them Fail, Too. He Knows What People Think About When They Invest Their Money.

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.

The Best Thing That Could Happen For The President Donald Trump, And The Country, Is A Full And Credible Investigation.

The Media Coverage For Donald Trump Has Been Almost Cheerleading Over The Last Couple Weeks. And I'm Convinced It's Because Many In The Press Want Him To Be The Nominee.

We Need 21st Century Programs. We Have To Change The Dynamic Because The World - We're Not In The Industrial Revolution Anymore, Where You Could Leave High School, Go Work At The Town Factory For 50 Years, And Retire With A Pension.

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'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.

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.

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.

We Have To Show What Life Is Really Like In Isis Territory, And We Have To Show Them Why Isis Is Not Invincible, By Going Out And Conducting These Attacks And Publicizing Them To Those Who They Recruit.

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.

Donald Trump Refused To Outline A Health Care Plan. And They Just Kind Of Moved On, Instead Of Pressing Him On It. He Gave A Ridiculous Answer On The National Debt. And They Moved On Without Pressing Him On It. No Other Candidate Could Have Gotten Away With That. So, I Think There's A Weird Bias Here In The Media Rooting For Donald Trump, Because They Know He's The Easiest Republican To Beat.

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.

Just Like Trump Tower, He [donald Trump] Must Have Hired A Foreign Worker To Do His Own Tweets.

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.

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.

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.

This Country Is Facing An Economy That Has Been Radically Transformed.and These Changes Have Been Disruptive. They Have Changed People's Lives. The Jobs That Once Sustained Our Middle Class, They Either Don't Pay Enough Or They Are Gone, And We Need Someone That Understands That As Our Nominee.

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.

I Never Wanted It To Get To This Point. I Had Hoped That, By Its Own Course, By The Way The Media Covers Politics, People Would Open Their Eyes And See Who Donald Trump Really Is. But That, Unfortunately, Has Not Happened. The Polls In The Early States Indicate That He's Been Able To Fool A Significant Number Of People Into Believing That He Is Something That He Is Not.

In Cuba, His Holiness [pope Francis] Won't Find A Government That Protects Its People And Their God-given Rights. Instead, He Will Find A Regime That Oppresses People And Hinders Progress, Both Socially And Politically.

Foreign Aid Is Important. If It's Done Right, It Spreads America's Influence Around The World In A Positive Way.

Barack Obama Doesn't Believe In Free Enterprise. He's Never Going To Admit It. For Instance, He's Never Going To Come Straight Out And Say, 'if You Own A Business You Didn't Build It.' Alright, Maybe He Will.

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.

I Respect The Rights Of Those Who Do Not Share My Beliefs...but To Teach My Faith To My Children...and To Share It With Anyone Who Will Listen...that Is My Right Too!

For Many Of Us Who Were Born And Raised In This Country, Including Me, It's Sometimes Easy To Forget How Special America Really Is.

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

Measure Of Success

My Preference Is That We Beat Him [donald Trump] Outright In The Primary Process. And I Believe That's Exactly What's Going To Happen Here In The Next Few Weeks, Especially As We Move To Winner-take-all States. The Terrain Begins To Change.

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.

From Tea Parties To The Election In Massachusetts, We Are Witnessing The Single Greatest Political Pushback In American History.

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

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

There's Never Been A Nation Like The United States, Ever. It Begins With The Principles Of Our Founding Documents, Principles That Recognize That Our Rights Come From God, Not From Our Government - Principles That Recognize That Because All Of Us Are Equal In The Eyes Of Our Creator, All Life Is Sacred At Every Stage Of Life.

There Have Always Been People In American Politics That Wanted America To Be More Like The Rest Of The World. And In 2008, One Of Them Was Elected President Of This Country And The Result Has Been A Disaster.

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.

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.

I Am But A Generation Removed From Poverty And Despair. Where Would I Be Today If There Had Never Been An America? What Kind Of Lives Or Future Would My Children Have If This Was Not A Land Of Opportunity?

We Are Still A Country Where Hard Work And Perseverance Can Earn You A Better Life... Yet We Are Rightfully Troubled That Many Of Our People Are Still Caught In What Seems To Be A Pervasive, Unending Financial Struggle... Every American Deserves An Equal Opportunity To Achieve Success.

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

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

If Support For Traditional Marriage Is Bigotry, Then Barack Obama Was A Bigot Until Just Before The 2012 Election.

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.

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.

I Don't Want There To Be Millions Of People That Are Permanently Barred From Every Becoming Americans.

I'm Running For President Because There's No Way We Can Elect Hillary Clinton To Continue The Policies.

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.

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.

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.

If You Vote Against The Defense Authorization Act In The Senate, You Would Also Veto It As President.

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.

These Terrorists Aren't Trying To Kill Us Because We Offended Them. They Attack Us Because They Want To Impose Their View Of The World On As Many People As They Can, And America Is Standing In Their Way.

And That Sort Of Victimization Narrative Is Something We Shouldn't Contribute To. On The Other Hand, We Have To Acknowledge That There Is A Radical Element In Islam, Jihadism, That Needs To Be Called By Name And Needs To Be Confronted.

If We Capture Any Of These Isis Killers Alive, They Are Going To Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, And We're Going To Find Out Everything They Know, Because When I'm President, Unlike Barack Obama, We Will Keep This Country Safe.

I Traveled The State Of Florida For Two Years Campaigning. I Have Never Met A Job Creator Who Told Me That They Were Waiting For The Next Tax Increase Before They Started Growing Their Business. I've Never Met A Single Job Creator Who's Ever Said To Me I Can't Wait Until Government Raises Taxes Again So I Can Go Out And Create A Job.

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.

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

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.

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.

And I Think For Some - Not All - But For Some Democrats, The Issue Of Immigration Is Better Politically If They Just Leave It The Way It Is Now Because They Can Use It Against Republicans.

What's Important To Do Is We Must Deal Frontally With This Threat Of Radical Islamists, Especially From Isis. This Is The Most Sophisticated Terror Group That Has Ever Threatened The World Or The United States Of America.

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

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

The Only Guy That Speaks At Any Sort Of Depth Is, In My Mind, Eminem. He's A Guy That Does Music That Talks About The Struggles Of Addiction And Before That Violence, With Growing Up In A Broken Family, Not Being A Good Enough Father. So, You Know That's What I Enjoy About It. It's Harder To Listen To Than Ever Before Because I Have A Bunch Of Kids And You Just Can't Put It On.

I Really Haven't Had Time To Think About What I'm Going To Do As A Professional Attorney. There Is No Doubt That I Am Going To Try To Achieve Something Positive In The Private Sector. I Think It's Important.

We Have Seen In Recent Years A Large Increase In The Number Of People Coming In And Cases Of People Going Back, Living In Cuba, But Still Receiving American Benefits. That Cannot Be Justified.

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.

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 Honestly Believe That Once People Begin To Understand What's At Stake Here, That We Have A Chance Here Not Just To Make Our Country Great, But Greater Than It's Ever Been, And We Have A Plan To Do It, I Think Is Going To Begin To Influence A Lot Of Voters, Not To Mention Coalesce Those Maybe Who Were With Someone Else First Around Us.

It Is A Health Care Law [obamacare] That Is Basically Forcing Companies To Lay People Off, Cut People's Hours, Move People To Part-time. It Is Not Just A Bad Health Care Law, It Is A Job-killing Law.

There Are Going To Be Stories Of Very Young Kids That Were Brought To This Country At A Very Young Age Who Don't Even Speak Spanish That Are Going To Be Sent Back To Nicaragua Or Some Other Place. And It's Gonna Feel Weird And I Understand That. The Goal Here Is To Have An Immigration Policy That Works. And If You Provide A Path For People To Enter This Country Illegally And If They Stay Here Long Enough And Pay Enough In Taxes, Well Let Them Stay Legally...why Would Anyone Come In Through The Legal Process?

Conservatives Aren't Anti-immigrant - Conservatives Are Pro-legal Immigration.

Legal Immigration

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.

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

National Security, The Government Is In Charge Of That. And You Better Have A President That Understands The Threats We [the State] Face And What We Have To Do About It And If You Can't Articulate That As A Candidate, You Cannot Be Commander-in-chief.

If In Fact The Rates Go Up Because The President Refuses To Budge Then He Will Have To Answer For That Next Year When Our Economy Is Not Growing. When, Unfortunately, People Lose Their Jobs Who Work At A Dental Clinic As A Medical Billing Specialist, Or The Paralegal At A Law Firm Loses Their Job, Or The Courier At The Law Firm Loses A Job, These Are Not Millionaires And Billionaires.

We Must Remember That In The House, Congressman [carlos] Curbelo Has A - The Same Law, And It Has A Lot Of Support In The House. It's Possible That It Will Happen First In The House And Then Go To The Senate.

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.

Raising The Minimum Wage May Poll Well, But Having A Job That Pays $10 An Hour Is Not The American Dream. And Our Current Government Programs, Offer At Best Only A Partial Solution. They Help People Deal With Poverty, But They Do Not Help Them Escape It.

We Will Be In This Race As Long As It Takes. We're Going To Be In As Many States As It Takes To Ensure That I'm The Nominee And That Donald Trump Never Gets To 1,236 Delegates, Which Is What He Needs To Be The Nominee.

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.

When I Got To The Senate, One Of The Things That Most Bothered Me Is This Lack Of Urgency About The Major Issues.

Our Brave Men And Women Have Made Many Sacrifices In Just Wars To Defeat The Forces Of Evil. We Have Exported Our Greatest Values: Freedom And Opportunity, Which Have Lifted Millions Out Of Poverty. At Home, These Values Allow Americans To Use Their God-given Potential And Make Their Dreams Reality.

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

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.

The Hispanic Community Understands The American Dream And Have Not Forgotten What They Were Promised - That In The U.s., A Free Market System, Allows Us All To Succeed Economically, Achieve Stability And Security For Your Family And Leave Your Children Better Off Than Yourselves.

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

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.

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

When Has A Democratic Political Activist Been Poisoned By The Gop, Or Vice Versa? We Are Not The Same As #putin.

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.

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.

I Would Vote Against Anything That Grants Amnesty Because I Think It Destroys Your Ability To Enforce The Existing Law

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.

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.

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

The War On Poverty Programs Help Address The Pain Of Poverty.

And Here's The Fact: The Fact Is It Doesn't Solve The Problem. First Of All, If You Taxed These People At 100 Percent, Basically Next Year You Said, 'look, Every Penny You Make Next Year The Government's Going To Take It From You,' It Still Doesn't Solve The Debt.

The No. 1 Issue In The Hispanic American Community Is 'how Do I Leave My Children Better Off Than Myself?

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

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

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.

We Understand That Isis Is A Group That's Growing In Its Governance Of Territory. It's Not Just Iraq And Syria. They Are Now A Predominant Group In Libya. They Are Beginning To Pop Up In Afghanistan. They Are Increasingly Involved Now In Attacks In Yemen. They Have Jordan In Their Sights. This Group Needs To Be Confronted With Serious Proposals.

My Father Stood Behind A Bar In The Back Of The Room All Those Years, So One Day I Could Stand Behind A Podium In The Front Of A Room. That Journey, From Behind That Bar To Behind This Podium, Goes To The Essence Of The American Miracle - That We're Exceptional Not Because We Have More Rich People Here. We're Special Because Dreams That Are Impossible Anywhere Else, Come True Here.

Hope And Change Has Become Divide And Conquer.

Divide And Conquer

Hope And Change

This Guy [donald Trump] Has Not Offered A Single Serious Policy Proposal, Which Is Important If You Want To Be President Of The United States. And Hillary Clinton Is Going To Have Clear Shot To The Oval Office. And So I Think There Are Many Out There That Are Rooting For That Outcome, So That He's The Nominee. And You Can See It In The Coverage He's Gotten.

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

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

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.

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.

No Economic System Is Perfect. But The American Free Enterprise System Has Empowered Millions Of People In The Past. I Know, Because I Saw It With My Own Eyes.

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?

Isis Are Actively Recruiting Americans. The Attacker In San Bernardino Was An American Citizen, Born And Raised In This Country. He Was A Health Inspector; Had A Newborn Child And Left All That Behind To Kill 14 People.

That May Not Be A Majority Position In My Party, But That's Down The Road. You Can't Even Begin That Process Until You Prove To People - Not Just Pass A Law That Says You're Gonna Bring Illegal Immigration Under Control. You're Gonna Have To Do It And Prove To People That It's Working.

We Need To Repeal Dodd-frank Act. It Is Eviscerating Small Businesses And Small Banks.

How Is Hillary Clinton Going To Lecture Me About Living Paycheck To Paycheck? I Was Raised Paycheck To Paycheck.

Most Countries Choose To Have Government Run The Economy.

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

I Am Personally Open - After All That Has Happened And After Ten Years In That Probationary Status Where All They Have Is A Permit, I Personally Am Open To Allowing People To Apply For A Green Card.

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."

We Are A People That Have Always Celebrated Other People's Success So Long As We Always Had The Opportunity To Meet That Success Ourselves. That Is The American Nature. That Is The American Character. That Is One Of The Things That Makes Us Different From The Rest Of The World. And I'm Afraid We Could Lose That Or Are On The Verge Of Losing That.

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

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.

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.

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.

Leadership Can Not Be Measured In A Poll Or Even In The Result Of An Election. It Can Only Be Truly Seen With The Benefit Of Time. From The Perspective Of 20 Years, Not 20 Days.

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.

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.

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.

After All, The U.s. Senate Already Has One Arlen Specter Too Many.

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.

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.

Let Us Agree Here Today To Adopt Among Ourselves A Simple And Unwritten Rule. We Will Not Rise To Criticize Someone Else's Idea Unless We Are Prepared To Offer An Alternative Idea Of Our Own.

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

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.

You Cannot Do Anything Without God.it's A Profound And Elemental Truth. Not, You Cannot Do Most Things Without God. You Will Not Be Able To Do Anything That You Want, Truly, In Fulfillment, Without God.

Ted Cruz Supported A 500-percent Increase In The Number Of H-1 Visas, The Guest Workers That Are Allowed Into This Country, And Ted Supports Doubling The Number Of Green Cards.

I Think When You're Running For President, Especially Someone That's Never Held Elected Office, There's One Set Of Things That You May View The World Through - A Lens That You May View The World Through. Then, You Get Elected And You Get Good People. And Those Good People Bring You The Facts. And They Bring You, "here's What's Going On. Here Are Our Options. Here's What Happens If You Do This. Here's What Happens When You Do That." And That Reality Begins To Assert Itself. And You Have To React To That. You're Now The President. You're No Longer A Candidate.

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.

The Way To Turn Our Economy Around Is Not By Making Rich People Poorer, It's By Making Poor People Richer.

Certainly Being Governor Is An Important Job, And There Are Quality Governors That Could Serve Our Country As President And Have Done So In The Past.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Obviously I Don't Agree With Everything He [donald Trump] Says. There's A Lot That We Have A Difference Of Opinion On. But We Can't Ignore That He's Touched On Some Issues That People Are Concerned About. If You Look At The Statements He Made This Week, Obviously I Think He Made Them Partially To Recapture The Limelight After Having Lost It.

America Is The Story Of Everyday People Who Did Extraordinary Things. A Story Woven Deep Into The Fabric Of Our Society.

I Really - As I Said, I Wanted To Be President Of The United States. It Didn't Turn Out That Way.

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

The Truth Is, The Greatest Tool To Lift Children And Families From Poverty Is One That Decreases The Probability Of Child Poverty By 82%. But It Isn't A Government Spending Program. It's Called Marriage.

We Have A Violence Problem In America. And No One Is Having A Debate About The Violence Problem. And I Think This Is A Missed Opportunity To Have An Honest And Open Conversation In This Country About Why These Horrifying Things Are Happening, Not Simply What They're Using To Carry This Out, But Why Are People Doing This To Begin With?

With Unemployment Still Abysmally High, The Obama Economy Is Crushing Hispanics' Dreams For Their Children To Live A Better Life.

Isis Is The Most Sophisticated Terror Threat We Have Ever Faced. We Are Now At A Time When We Need More Tools, Not Less Tools. And That Took We Lost, The Metadata Program, Was A Valuable Tool That We No Longer Have At Our Disposal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Aleppo, Mr. Putin Has Directed His Military To Conduct A Devastating Campaign. He's Targeted Schools, Markets, Not Just Assisted Syrians In Doing It, His Military Has Targeted Schools And Markets And Other Civilian Infrastructure. It's Resulted In The Deaths Of Thousands Of Civilians.

Donald Trump Is Never Going To Be The Nominee. So, I'm Not Worried About A Hypothetical That's Never Going To Happen.

Bashar Assad Has Been So Brutal Toward The Sunni Within Syria That He Created The Space That Led To The People Of Syria Themselves To Stand Up And Try To Overthrow Him. That Led To The Chaos Which Allowed Isis To Come In And Take Advantage Of That Situation And Grow More Powerful.

2010 Is Not Just A Choice Between Republicans And Democrats. 2010 Is Not Just A Choice Between Liberals And Conservatives. 2010 Is A Referendum On The Very Identity Of Our Nation.

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.

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.

But Here's What I Would Tell People Of My Generation. I Turn 40 This Year. There Isn't Going To Be A Social Security. There Isn't Going To Be A Medicare When You Retire. Forget About What Your Benefit Is Going To Look Like. There Isn't Going To Be One If We Don't Make Some Reforms To Save That Program Now.

[nicolas Maduro] Completely Controls The Judicial Branch, Controls The Courts, Has Denied Their Basic Rights And The Responsibility That The Legislative Branch Has In That Country.

When I'm President, The Senate Bill Is Not Going To Be What We're Operating Off Of. It's Going To Begin By Focusing On Securing Our Border First And Foremost. And Until You Do That, You're Not Going To Be Able To Do Anything Else.

Do People Have A Right To Be Angry About, Not Just The Political Class, But Every Institution In Society? Absolutely. But Neither Anger Nor Fear Will Solve Our Problems. They Can Serve To Motivate Us, But It Will Not Solve Our Problems.

Now, Look, It's True, Americans Do Want Leaders That Will Come To Washington, D.c. And Work Together To Get Things Done, But That Comes With A Very Important Caveat, It Depends What They're Trying To Do.

Working Together

Nowadays, Cubans Who Enter From Cuba With A Visa Do Not Receive Any Aid.

In Order To Have Middle-income, Middle-paying Jobs, The Kinds Of Jobs That Allow People To Get Ahead, You Have To Have Higher Level Of Training And Skill Acquisition And Education Than Ever Before.

Once Again, America Finds Itself With Some Leaders Who Believe We Can Ignore The World Without Consequences Here At Home. Apparently They're Oblivious To The Reality That We Are Less Insulated From Global Events Than Ever Before.

Despite Our Differences, I Know That Both Republicans And Democrats Love America.

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.

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.

Nothing Matters If We Aren't Safe.

Nothing Matters

Even If We Didn't Have A Single Person In The Usa In Violation Of Immigration Laws, We'd Still Have To Do Immigration Reform, Because Our Legal Immigration System Is Broken. It's Not Good For Anybody.

As Far As The Refugees Are Concerned, It's Not That America Doesn't Want To Accept Refugees.t's That We May Not Be Able To, Because This Is An Issue We Have To Be 100 Percent Right On. If We Allow 9,999 Syrian Refugees Into The United States, And All Of Them Are Good People, But We Allow One Person In Who's An Isis Killer - We Just Get One Person Wrong, We've Got A Serious Problem.

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 Believe God Has Blessed Our Country. This Country Has Been Extraordinarily Blessed.

Republican Party Is The Party That Stands For The People Who Are Trying To Start A Business Out Of The Spare Bedroom Of Their Home, Who Are Trying To Give Their Kids A Better Life. And The Only Way That's Possible Is Through The America Free Enterprise System.

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.

The World Is A Better Place When America Is Willing To Lead.

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