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My Mother Was One Of Seven Girls Whose Parents Went To Bed Hungry So Their Children Wouldn’t. My Father Lost His Mother When He Was Nine. He Left School And Went To Work For The Next 70 Years. They Emigrated To America With Little More Than The Hope Of A Better Life.

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My Mother Was One Of Seven Girls Whose Parents Went To Bed Hungry So Their Children Wouldn’t. My Father Lost His Mother When He Was Nine. He Left School And Went To Work For The Next 70 Years. They Emigrated To America With Little More Than The Hope Of A Better Life.

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Cuba Harbor Fugitives Of American Justice. There Are People Living On The Island Of Cuba Who Have Violated American Law, Including Those Who Have Stolen Millions Of Dollars From Medicare Fraud In South Florida And Have Fled To Cuba. Those Are Three Reasons Right There To Care About What Is Happening On The Island Of Cuba, Which Happens To Be 90 Miles From Our Shores, Basically A Neighboring Country.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Americans Chose A Free Enterprise System Designed To Provide A Quality Of Opportunity, Not Compel A Quality Of Results. And That Is Why This Is Only Place In The World Where You Can Open Up A Business In The Spare Bedroom Of Your Home.

Most Countries Choose To Have Government Run The Economy.

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.

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

Puerto Rico Is A Government That Is Spending Money That It Doesn't Have. What's Coming In And What's Going Out Don't Match. That Is, What They Are Receiving In Taxes Is Not Sufficient To Cover The Spending That They Are Taking On. And Any Entity That Does That, Whether A Family, A Business, A Government, Is Going To Go Broke And Bankrupt. They Are Asking To Be Given The Right To Declare Bankruptcy, Which I Think Should Be An Option, As A Last Resort, If There Is No Other Resource.

If Donald Trump Is Our Nominee, It Could Be The End Of The Republican Party. It Will Split Us And Splinter Us In A Way That We May Never Be Able To Recover. And The Democrats Will Be Joyful About It. It's Not Going To Happen.

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.

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.

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

The Federal Government Has The Responsibility To Protect The Nation's Public Health, To Protect Us From Foreign Threats. And It [zika] Really Is An Illness That We Are Seeing Arrive From Abroad. So It Is A Threat To Public Health, And It Is The Federal Government's Job To Cooperate In This.

I Think Media Think It's Going To Be Good For Ratings, And, Two, Because They Know They Have A Lot Of Material To Work With. If Donald Trump Were To Ever Become The Nominee, Immediately, The Hounds Of Hell Would Descend On Him. They're Going To Tear Him Apart, Everything He's Ever Done, From Not Releasing His Taxes, To All Of His Failed Business Dealings.

Around The World, America's Influence Has Declined While This President [barack Obama] Has Destroyed Our Military, Our Allies No Longer Trust Us, And Our Adversaries No Longer Respect Us.

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.

The Greatest Thing That We Can Do For The World Is Be America.

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.

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.

To Tackle The Big And Relevant Issues Of The Day With Bold And Innovative Ideas Is Without Question The Most Rewarding Way To Serve.

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

I Don't Know Anything About Bankrupting Four Companies. Here's A Guy That Inherited $200 Million. If He Hadn't Inherited $200 Million, You Know Where Donald Trump Would Be Right Now? Selling Watches In Manhattan.

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

The Reason We Have A Cuban Adjustment Act Is Because, At The Beginning, They [migrants] Were Fleeing Political Persecution.

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.

Our Status As A Land Of Equal Opportunity Has Made Us A Rich And Powerful Nation, But It Has Also Transformed Lives. It Has Given People Like Me The Chance To Grow Up Knowing That No Dream Was Too Big And No Goal Out Of Reach.

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.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People That Haven't Been Able To Find A Job In Months And This Growing Sense In This Country That This Is The New Normal, Well We Can't Accept That.

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

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

I Spent Six Years As A Child Growing Not Far From Las Vegas.i Use To Sit On The Porch Of Our Home And Listen To My Grandfather Tell Stories As He Smoked One Of Three Daily Cigars.one Of The Things My Grandfather Instilled In Me, Was That I Was Really Blessed Because I Was A Citizen Of The Greatest Country In The History Of Our Mankind.

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

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

Cubans Must Prove That They're Political Refugees. And If They Can Prove That They're Really Fleeing Persecution, Well, They Would Qualify As Refugees.

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.

We Are Special Because We've Been United Not By A Common Race Or Ethnicity. We're Bound Together By Common Values. That Family Is The Most Important Institution In Society. That Almighty God Is The Source Of All We Have.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hope And Change Has Become Divide And Conquer.

Divide And Conquer

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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.

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