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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I Believe That The Cuban Adjustment Act Must Be Re-examined.

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Free Enterprise Is The Best Economic System In The History Of The World, Because It Is The Only System Where You Can Make Poor People Richer And You Don't Have To Make Rich People Poor.

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I'm Not New To The Political Process; I Was Making A Contribution As The Speaker Of The Third Largest And Most Diverse State In The Country Well Before I Even Got Into The Senate.

[cuba's Goverment] Is An Anti-american Government.

American Government

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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.

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The Problem Is That When Government Controls The Economy, Those Who Can Influence Government Keep Winning, And Everybody Else Just Stays The Same.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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My Parents Were Workers. My Mom, Especially In My High School Years, Was A Stock Clerk At Kmart... My Dad Was A Bartender That Worked Banquets.

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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'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.

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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.

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In Politics, People Throw Around The Word 'friend' So Much It Often Has Little Real Meaning. This Is Not One Of Those Times, When I Call Jeb Bush My Friend, I Mean He Is Someone I Like, Care For And Respect. He And I Have Worked Closely Together For Many Years, On Issues Big And Small. He Is A Passionate Advocate For What He Believes, And I Welcome Him To The Race.

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?

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.

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Equality Under The Law

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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.

Conservatives Believe In Traditional Values. Not Because We Want To Impose Our Views On Anyone, But Because To Abandon Those Values Would Be To Ignore Our History. Americans Are Not The Most Generous People On Earth Because Our Laws Make Us Generous. People Do Not Contribute To Charity In This Country In Record Amounts Because We Have A Tax Break From It. We Do So Because This Nation Has Been Shaped By Judeo-christian Principles That Teach Us That We Have An Obligation To Care For One Another.

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

Well, Who's Going To Be Fired When Ted Cruz Is President? Because This Campaign Now Has Repeatedly Done Things That They Have To Apologize For And No One's Ever Held Accountable.

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...

I Think What We Need To Do Is Understand Our Number One Obligation Is To Act In The National Interest Of The United States Of America. I Believe It Is In Our National Interest To See Democracy Take Hold On The Island Of Cuba. And So We Examine Our Foreign Policy, Including All The Changes That President Obama Made, In That Lens And Through That Lens.

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.

I Feel Bad For The Kids That Are In School Right Now And The Young People All Across America Who Don't Realize That The Grownups Who Are Supposed To Be Running This Country Are The Verge Of Leaving Them As The First Generation Of Americans Worse Off Than The Generation Before.

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.

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.

The 21st Century Looks Different. It's Been Very Disruptive. It Has Created A Lot Of Insecurity. We Have To Adjust To That, Because The 21st Century Has Real Promise. Now, The Higher-paying Jobs Of This New Century Are Fantastic. The Problem Is, You Have To Have Some Level Of Higher Education, Maybe Not A Four-year Degree, But Some Level Of Higher Education, To Get Those Jobs.

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.

Religious Freedom Is Often Referred To As America's First Freedom. Our Country Was Founded By Religious Exiles And Built On The Belief That God Has Given All People Certain Inalienable Rights. Government's Role In Society Is To Protect These Rights And Ensure That We Are Safe From Religious Persecution And Discrimination.

Legal Immigration Is Good For America, If It's Controlled And Structured Via The Legal Process, Of Course. But The Problem Is The System We Have In Place Right Now Is Broken. For Example, It Is Completely Family Based Which Means That It's Based Not On What You Can Do Or What Talent You Have Or What Merit You Bring Or What Job You Could Fill, But Rather On Whether You Know Someone Who Already Lives Here.

Moammar Gadhafi Is The Man That Killed Those Americans Over Lockerbie, Scotland. Moammar Gadhafi Is Also The Man That Bombed That Cafe In Berlin And Killed Those Marines. And You Want To Know Why Moammar Gadhafi Started Cooperating On His Nuclear Program? Because We Got Rid Of Saddam Hussein. And So He Got Scared That He Would Be Next, And That's Why He Started Cooperating.

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?

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

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.

Let Me Start By Saying That I Do Not Enjoy Nor Relish The Partisan Role Of Attack Dog. I Never Found Any Fun In That. I Don't Think It's Constructive. I Don't Intend To Become That Here In The Senate.

Why Are There So Many Young Conservatives Now Serving Our Country? I'll Tell You Why? Because We Grew Up In An Era Of Reagan. And Ronald Reagan Looked And Acted Nothing Like Donald Trump And Look At The Democrats.

You Know What The Fastest Growing Religion In America Is? Statism. The Growing Reliance On Government.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

I Haven't Thought About Aspirations For The Future. I Like Politics, I Like Serving The Public, And We'll See If God Offers Us Another Opportunity In The Future.

Every Generation In America Has Faced The Same Question, Do We We Want America To Be Special? Or Do We Just Want America To Be Another Country? The Time Has Come Again.

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

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.

If There's Somebody That I Love That's In My Life, I Don't Necessarily Have To Agree With Their Decisions Or The Decisions They've Made To Continue To Love Them And Participate In Important Events.

Important Events

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

I Pray The Pope [francis] Can Use His Moral Authority To Inspire True Religious Freedom, And Bring Us Closer To The Day When Freedom Can Finally Take Root On The Island Country; Because Only Then Will The People Of Cuba Prosper And Have The Opportunity To Live Out God's Plan.

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.

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.

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 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.

The American Dream Is About Achieving Happiness. When You Become A Fire Fighter, A Police Officer Or A Teacher Or A Nurse, You Know You're Not Going To Become A Billionaire. And What My Parents Achieved Working As A Bartender And A Maid At A Hotel After Arriving Here With Nothing, No Education, No Money. The First Words My Dad Learned In English Where I'm Looking For A Job.you Know What My Parents Achieved? They Owned A Home In A Safe And Stable Neighborhood. They Retired With Dignity And They Left All Four Of Their Children Better Off Than Themselves.

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

You Know That Big Government Doesn't Hurt Big Corporations. They've Got The Best Lawyers And Accountants In The World. You Know Who Gets Destroyed By Big Government? It's The Little Guys.

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.

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.

Isis Have To Be Defeated. They Have To Be Defeated Militarily. How Are We Going To Do That If We Continue To Weaken Our Military?

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.

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.

We Need To Have A Regulatory Budget In America That Limits The Amount Of Regulations On Our Economy. We Need To Repeal And Replace Obamacare And We Need To Improve Higher Education So That People Can Have Access To The Skills They Need For 21st Century Jobs.

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.

I Have Been An Underdog My Whole Life, Both In Life And In Politics. We're Going To Do Well. We're Going To Pick Up A Lot Of Delegates On Super Tuesday.

[puerto Rico] Losing Not Just Taxpayers, But Professionals, People Who Are Vital To Their Communities. I Don't Think That Is Good. So Undoubtedly, If What We Are Facing In Puerto Rico In Terms Of Budget And Debt Goes On, If It Continues, It Would Be A Disaster For The Island.

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.

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.

I'm Very Realistic About The Challenges We Face. Ok? I Have Seen It Up Close In 2010. It's Why I Ran For The Senate Five Years Ago. I Have Only Been There Five Years, But It's Been Enough Time To Know The Damage Barack Obama Has Done To This Country.

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.

Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama's Strategy Is To Lead From Behind. It Sounds Like What He Is Outlining Is Not To Lead At All. We Cannot Continue To Outsource Foreign Policy. We Must Lead. We Are The Most Powerful Nation In The World. We Need To Begin To Act Like It, Again.

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