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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.

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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.

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Divide And Conquer

Hope And Change

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Legal Immigration

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The Practical Reality That In Order For Us To Identify Homegrown Violent Extremism And Prevent It Or Root It Out Before It Takes Action, We Are Going To Need The Cooperation Of Muslim Communities In This Country.

I'm Not Looking To Be Anyone's Vice President. I Looking To Be The President Of The United States. Or, I'll Be A Private Citizen, There's Nothing Wrong With Being A Private Citizen.

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Working Together

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If A Regular Law Enforcement Agency Wants Your Phone Records, All They Have To Do Is Issue A Subpoena. But Now The Intelligence Agency Is Not Able To Quickly Gather Records And Look At Them To See Who These Terrorists Are Calling.

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The Erosion Of Equal Opportunity Is Among The Greatest Threats To Our Exceptionalism As A Nation. But It Also Provides Us With An Exciting And Historic Opportunity: To Help More People Than Ever Achieve The American Dream.

We Chose More Freedom Instead Of More Government. We Chose The Principles Of Our Founding To Solve The Challenges Of Our Time. We Chose A Special Man To Lead Us In A Special Time. We Chose Mitt Romney To Lead Our Nation.

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

It Wouldn't Be Bad To Have The Secret Service Keeping An Eye On My Teenage Daughter. I Personally Am Not Troubled By The Fact That There Would Be A Couple Of Big Guys With Earpieces Beside Her, Just In Case.

How Come Liberals Never Admit That They're Liberal? They've Now Come Up With A New Word Called 'progressive,' Which I Thought Was An Insurance Company But Apparently It's A Label.

For More Than Two Generations, My Family Had Never Achieved Their Ambitions. Their Talents Were Unappreciated And Unused. They Deserved Better. They Hadn't Done Anything Wrong; They Just Had Some Bad Breaks. Why Was I Succeeding? Why Was I Living My Dreams? I Wasn't More Deserving Than They Were. I Wasn't Smarter Or A Better Person. What Was The Difference Between Us That Allowed Me To Attain So Much In A Short Time? America. America Was The Difference. I Had Been Born A Citizen Of The Greatest Nation In All Of Human History.

You Can't Carpet Bomb Isis If You Don't Have Planes And Bombs To Attack Them With. And If We Continue Those Cuts That We're Doing , Not To Mention Additional Cuts, We Are Going To Be Left With The Oldest And The Smallest Air Force This Country Has Ever Had, And That Leaves Us Less Safe.

There's Never Going To Be A Time Where The Republican Party Rallies Around And Says You Have To Get Out Or Anyone Has To Get Out For Purposes Of Rallying Around Donald Trump.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Free Enterprise Makes People Prosperous, All People Prosperous, And Big Government Makes People Poorer.

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.

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

Majority Leader

America Is Not A Special Country By Accident. It Did Not Happen On Its Own. It Happened Because For Over 200 Years, Each Generation Before Us Did What Needed To Be Done.

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.

If My House Was On Fire, I Can't Compromise About Which Part Of The House I'm Going To Save. You Save The Whole House Or It Will All Burn Down. We Either Save This Country Or We Do Not.

Obama Wants To Ruin America. Hillary [clinton]too.

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.

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.

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.

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

We're Special Because Dreams That Are Impossible Anywhere Else, Come True Here. That's Not Just My Story. That's Your Story. That's Our Story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This President [barack Obama] Is Undermining Our Military. This President Is More Interested In Funding Planned Parenthood Than In Funding The Military.

We Have Seen How Zika Has Become A Very Serious Problem In Brazil, In Other Parts Of Latin America, In This Hemisphere. During The Summer It Can Arrive Very Quickly Here In South Florida, In The Whole State. In A Very Hot Climate In Summer, Where Mosquitos Begin To Spread Very Quickly, It's A Very Serious Threat.

I Don't Know Anything About Starting A University, And That Was A Fake University.there Are People Who Borrowed $36,000 To Go To Trump University, And They're Suing Now - $36,000 To Go To A University. That's A Fake School. And You Know What They Got? They Got To Take A Picture With A Cardboard Cutout Of Donald Trump. That's What They Got For $36,000.

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.

People Have A Right To Be A Democrat. People Have A Right To Be Wrong. I Know They're The Same Thing.

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.

We Are Getting Thousands And Thousands Of Professionals, Very Highly-trained People, From Puerto Rico Who Are Now Living In Florida, And Who Have Obviously Contributed A Lot To This State, But The Island Is Losing That Population.

Their Rhetoric Is The Same As Always. The Only Difference Is That The United States Has Granted Them A Whole Series Of Concessions, And That The Cuban Government Has Not Changed At All. And That Is Part Of The Same Thing I've Always Said, This Isn't Different, Nothing Has Changed On The Part Of The Cuban Government, Absolutely Nothing Has Changed On Its Part.

Americans Chose A Limited Government That Exists To Protect Our Rights, Not To Grant Them.

Tourist Trips To Cuba Are Being Abused. They Are Tourist Trips That Are Providing Hard Currency For A Dictatorial, Tyrannical Regime To Get Hard Currency That It Uses To Oppress Its People. And That's Why These Trips Need To Be Carefully Scrutinized.

Conservatism Has Never Been About Fear Or About Anger. Not At Its Best. Do People Have A Right To Be Fearful Of The Future Right Now? Yes, Because For Over Two Decades, Leaders In Neither Party Have Solved The Problems Before Us.

Unfortunately, President Obama's Failed Policies Of New Regulations, Higher Taxes, And Obamacare And His Anti-business Rhetoric Have Hit Hispanics Especially Hard. Big Government Really Hurts Those Who Are Trying To Make It.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

[bashar] Assad Is One Of The Main Reasons Why Isis Even Exists To Begin With. Assad Is A Puppet Of Iran.

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

Measure Of Success

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.

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.

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

What I Have Advocated Is That We Pass Law In This Country That Says All Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development Is Worthy Of Protection. In Fact, I Think That Law Already Exists. It Is Called The Constitution Of The United States.

I Would Just Say It's Not Good For The Country To Have 11 Million People Here Who We Don't Know Who They Are, Where They're Living. They're Not Paying Taxes, But They're Showing Up In Emergency Rooms. They're Driving Up The Cost Of Auto Insurance 'cause They Don't Have Driver's Licenses And Are Getting Into Accidents. They're Having Children, Which Are Us Citizens. So, I Mean, It's An Issue That Needs To Be Dealt With.

These Economic, Social, Cultural And Educational Causes Of Opportunity Inequality Are Complex. And They Will Not Be Solved By Continuing With The Same Stale Washington Ideas. Five Decades And Trillions Of Dollars After President Johnson Waged His War On Poverty, The Results Of This Big-government Approach Are In.

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

American Government

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.

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.

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