Background Image

...

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.

-Marco Rubio

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

Our Government Does Not

Marco Rubio

...

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.

Views: 8

Topic

More From Marco Rubio

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.

The Obama Administration's Obsession With Forcing Mandates On The American People Has Now Reached A New Low By Violating The Conscience Rights And Religious Liberties Of Our People.

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

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

I Owe A Debt To America That I Will Never Be Able To Repay.

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.

This Opportunity – To Make It To The Middle Class Or Beyond No Matter Where You Start Out In Life – It Isn't Bestowed On Us From Washington. It Comes From A Vibrant Free Economy Where People Can Risk Their Own Money To Open A Business.

I Believe We Must Study Which Changes Must Be Made Now That The Immigration System Has Changed, Because We Are Seeing, I Believe, That At This Time We Are Inviting People To Come To The U.s. On Very Dangerous Trips.

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.

[barack] Obama Has Betrayed Israel, Gutted The Military, And Apologized On Ten World Tours.

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

When You Say I Want To Talk About Racial Justice, That`s Not The Same As Saying I Want To Do Something About Racial Justice.

After A Migratory Crisis On The Border With Minors Coming Over That You're Seeing Start Up Again Now, After All These Executive Orders The President Has Issued. More Than Ever We Need To Prove To People That Illegal Immigration Is Under Control.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

There Is Not A Single Person In The National Defense Apparatus Of This Country That Can Guarantee You Are Going To Be 100 Percent Right. And That's Why As President, I'll Take This Very Seriously.

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

The American People Don't Trust The Federal Government To Enforce Our Immigration Laws, And We Will Not Be Able To Do Anything On Immigration Until We First Prove To The American People That Illegal Immigration Is Under Control. And We Can Do That. We Know What It Takes To Do That.

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.

I Don't Want Us To Have A President That We Constantly Have To Be Explaining To Our Kids, I Know That's What The President Did But You Shouldn't Do That. I Don't Want That. We Actually Had A President Like That Not Long Ago. It Was Really Bad.

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.

I`ve Had Over $20 Million Spent Attacking Me. That`s Not Grassroots Money. That`s Money From The Establishment. We Have Always Had To Take On The Establishment. We`ll Do It Again, Because The Republican Party Needs To Turn The Page And Move Forward. And We Will.

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.

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.

[donald Trump Twitts] "lightweight Marco Rubio Was Working Hard Last Night." This Is True. "the Problem Is He's Chalker And Once A Chalker, Always A Choker," I Guess That's What He Meant To Say. He Spelled Choker, C-h-o-k-e-r.

A Sense That With The Blessings That God Bestowed Upon This Land, Came The Responsibility To Make The World A Better Place.

You Know Those Movies Where The People In The Audience Are Screaming, 'don't Go In That Door!' Because You Know The Killer Is There? Well, It Is The Same Thing With This Debt. We Know How This Ends.

Donald Trump Is Pulling Off A World-class Scam Here. I Mean, He's Telling People He's All These Things That He's Never Been His Entire Life. He Says He's Fighting For The Little Guy, The Working Class. He Has Spent His Entire Business Career Sticking It To Working People.

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.

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.

People Are Really Angry At Washington. And They Have A Right To Be. It's Why I Ran In 2010, By The Way.

Well, When People Talk About Interrogating Terrorists, They're Acting Like This Is Some Sort Of Law Enforcement Function. Law Enforcement Is About Gathering Evidence To Take Someone To Trial, And Convict Them. Anti-terrorism Is About Finding Out Information To Prevent A Future Attack So The Same Tactics Do Not Apply.

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.

Let's Stop Big Government Energy Mandates Like Cap-and-trade, And Instead Trust The American Innovator To Make Us Energy Independent.

I Do Think The Most Important Thing We Need In Leadership In Our Country, Not Just In The Presidency But In The United States Senate, Are People That Have A Clear Vision Of What The Role Of Government Should Be In Our Lives And What The Role Of America Should Be In The World.

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.

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.

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.

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!

I'm Not Interested In Being Donald Trump Or Anybody Else's Vice President, That's Not What I'm Aiming At.

Both Of My Parents Were Born Into Poor Families On The Island Of Cuba. They Came To America Because It Was The Only Place Where People Like Them Could Have A Chance.my Father Was A Bartender. And The Journey From The Back Of That Bar To The [election 2016], To Me, That Is The Essence Of The American Dream.

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.

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.

That Thought Process That Somehow Other People Have To Be Worse Off In Order For You To Be Better Off Does Not Work. People Get On Boats People Jump Fences To Get Away From That Kind Of Thought Process.

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.

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.

There Is Nothing That We Are Allowed To Do Under Usa Freedom Act That We Could Not Do Before.

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

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.

Donald Trump Is Not Going To Be The Nominee, Because We Are Not Going To Allow - People Will Wake Up And We're Not Going To Allow A Con Artist To Take Over The Party Of [abraham] Lincoln And [ronald] Reagan.

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.

Let's Be Honest - Bill Murray Was Onto Something When He Laughed At Andie Macdowell's Degree In 19th Century French Poetry In 'groundhog Day'.

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 Believe That We Will See Cases Like These That Will Continue Because We're Talking About Companies That Are Doing Business With A Tyranny And A Dictatorship. And When They Do Business With A Dictatorship, A Tyranny, They Will Have Problems Like This. This, I Believe, Is The Beginning Of Several Problems That There Will Be Over The Next Few Years Because We Are Talking About American Companies That Now Want To Get Cozy With This Regime, And They Will Find Themselves In Very Serious Problems Such As Those We're Seeing At This Time With The Carnival Company.

I Am Not Now, Nor Will I Ever Be, A Candidate For Offensive Coordinator Of Iowa.

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.

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

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

We Can't Win - If We Nominate Someone - If We Nominate Someone That Half Of The Republican Party Hates, We're Going To Be Fighting Against Each Other All The Way To November [of 2016]. We Will Never Win That Way.

This 2016 Election Better Be About The Future, Not The Past. It Better Be About The Issues Our Nation And The World Is Facing Today, Not Simply The Issues We Once Faced.

All Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development Is Worthy Of Protection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 Politics Of Resentment Against Other People Will Not Just Leave The Republican Party A Fractured Party. They're Going To Leave Us A Fractured Nation. They're Going To Leave Us As A Nation Where People Literally Hate Each Other Because They Have Different Political Opinions.

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.

My Dad Used To Tell Us: 'en Este Pais, Ustedes Van A Poder Lograr Todas Las Cosas Que Nosotros No Pudimos' 'in This Country, You Will Be Able To Accomplish All The Things We Never Could.'

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.

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

Legal Immigration

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.

I Think God Has Blessed Us. He Has Blessed The Republican Party With Some Very Good Candidates. The Democrats Can't Even Find One.

I'm Proud Of The Fact That The Republican Party Is The Pro-life Party On The Issue Of Life.

I Don't Agree With The Notion That Some Are Putting Out There, Including Scientists, That Somehow There Are Actions We Can Take Today That Would Actually Have An Impact On What's Happening In Our Climate.

And I Can Tell You That History Will Back Up What I'm About To Say And That Is That There Is No Government Run By Conservatives, Republicans, Put Whoever You Want There, If You Give Government The Opportunity To Spend More Money Than It Has, It Will Do It. It Will Do It Every Time.

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 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.

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

Roberta Jacobson Is In Charge Of A Department Within The State Department With Which, On Other Occasions, I Have Had Problems With Regarding The Answers They Gave Me.

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.

[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.

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.

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 Second Amendment Is A Constitutional Right. I Didn't Make It Up, The Republican Party Didn't Make It Up. It's In The Constitution. I Think It's Just As Important As Any Of The Other Rights In Our Constitution.

I've Seen How The Left Has Used It To Accuse Opponents Of Their Version Of Reform Of Being Bigots And Racists.

There Is One Way, Only One Way To Solve It, And That Is Through Legislation. It Cannot Be Through An Unconstitutional Executive Order That Violates The Constitution. That Is, It Doesn't Matter Here What You Think About Immigration: Here You Cannot Violate The Nation's Constitution, Period.

If I Thought That Raising The Minimum Wage Was The Best Way To Help People Increase Their Pay, I Would Be All For It, But It Isn't. If You Raise The Minimum Wage, You're Going To Make People More Expensive Than A Machine. And That Means All This Automation That's Replacing Jobs And People Is Only Going To Be Accelerated.

The Fbi Doesn't Sit Around All Day And Read Tweets. The Fbi's Going To Do Their Job. Robert Mueller's Going To Do His Job.

I Think There Are Many In The Democratic Party That Want Immigration To Be Unsolved Issue At Least For The Time Being, Because It's More Useful As A Campaign Issue Than It Is As A Solved Issue.

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.

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.

As Pope Francis Visits The United States For The Very First Time, It Is Our Privilege As Catholics And Americans To Welcome His Holiness To Our Country. Here, He Will Find People Who Are Uniquely Free.

Our Options Oftentimes On Foreign Policy Are Not A Choice Between A Good One And A Bad One. It's A Choice Between Two Less-than-ideal Options. And You're Trying To Figure Out Which Is The Least Harmful Of The Two. And I Think That's Something We Should Be Encouraged By, Not Something That We Should Be Critical Of.

A President Cannot Make Decision On What Someone Might Know In The Future.

The American Dream Is Not About How Much Money You Make Or How Many Buildings Have Your Name On It.

I Think The American People Are Gonna Be Reasonable With What Do You Do With Someone Who Has Been In This Country For 10 Or 12 Years Who Hasn't Otherwise Violated Our Laws - Because If They're A Criminal They Can't Stay. They'll Have To Undergo A Background Check, Pay A Fine, Start Paying Taxes. And Ultimately, They'll Given A Work Permit And That's All They're Gonna Be Allowed To Have For At Least 10 Years.

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.

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.

Actually, I Am Asking For This: For Something To Be Done. I Think That If It Had Been One Of The 50 States, Something Would Have Already Been Done. Unfortunately, You Know, Puerto Rico Is A Territory. Very Often They Forget About Puerto Rico.

When Donald Trump's Projects Go Under, The First People That Don't Get Paid Are The Contractors That He's - Some Of Whom Have Gone Bankrupt. They're Calling Me. I'm Getting Nonstop E-mails And Calls Now From People That Have Been Scammed By Donald Trump. And Their Stories Are Heartbreaking.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ultimately, My Proposal Isn't Intended To Increase Or Decrease The Amount Of Federal Spending Spent On Antipoverty Programs.

Nothing Matters If We Aren't Safe.

Nothing Matters

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

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.

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.

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.

Americans Believe In The Value Of Immigration. We Are The Most Generous Nation On Earth To Immigrants, Allowing Over One Million People A Year To Come Here Legally.

I Want Immigration Reform To Pass, I Want People To Be Able To Come Out Of The Shadows.

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.

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.

Conservatives Believe That We Need To Defeat Radical Islam Not Because We Want War But Because Isis And Other Radical Islamist Are Enemies Of Peace And That's Why We Need A President, Who In Which Under Whom The Best Intelligence Agencies In The World Will Find Terrorists And The Best Military In The World Will Destroy Them. And If We Capture Them Alive, A President That Will Bring Them To The United States. A President That Will Grant Them A Court-appointed Lawyer, A President That Will Send These Terrorists Where They Belong, To Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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.

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

We Will Either Bring On Another American Century, Or We Are Doomed To Witness America's Decline.

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.

You Have Got To Know What You're Doing On Your Very First Day There. So, Look, This Is Not An Attack Or Anything Of That Nature. It's Just A Very Simple Observation. If You Want To Be President, You Have To Start Detailing Some Specific Public Policy. And I Don't Think From This Point Forward In The Campaign, Voters Are Going To Be As Tolerant Of The Lack Of That As They Have Been Up To Now.

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

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.

To Help People Emerge From The Poverty, You Have To Understand, What Are The Structural Causes Of It? And The Structural Causes Are Partially Cultural.

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.

If Donald Trump Builds The Wall The Way He Builds Trump Towers, He'll Be Using Illegal Immigrant Labor To Do It.

What I'm Not - I Can't Control Other People's Campaigns. If They Decide That's What They Want To Do With Their Time And Money, They Certainly Have A Right To Do It.

Moammar Gadhafi And The Revolt Against Gadhafi Was Not Started By The United States. It Was Started By The Libyan People. And The Reason Why I Argued We Needed To Get Involved Is Because He Was Going To Go One Way Or The Other. And My Argument Then Was Proven True, And That Is, The Longer That Civil War Took, The More Militias Would Be Formed And The More Unstable The Country Would Be After The Fact.

The Government Can't Change The Weather.

They [ The Government Of Puerto Rico] 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. But There Also Need To Be Measures, Changes Within The Government Of Puerto Rico, In The Ways That The Island's Funds Are Administered, Not Just To Deal With This Budget Issue, But Also To Have, To Attract The Economic Growth That Is Necessary For Puerto Rico To Begin To Grow Economically. They Are Losing Population, And They Are Losing Economically.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

No Community Values Entrepreneurship And Small Business More Than The Hispanic Community.

Entrepreneurship

Barack Obama Hasn't Kept Us Safe. The Problem Is We Had An Attack In San Bernardino. And We Were Paying Attention To The Most Important Issue We Have Faced In A Decade Since 9/11, And Then All The Talk Was About This Proposal, Which Isn't Going To Happen.

From My Perspective, What I'm Really Focused On, Is Making Sure That, For The Broadest Number Of Americans Possible, Limited Government And Free Enterprise, The Principles That Have Truly Helped Build Our Country Into An Exceptional One, Is One That Is Being Sold To And Appeals To The Broadest Number Of Americans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

We Need To Repeal And Replace Dodd-frank Act. We Need To Make America Fair Again For All Businesses, But Especially Those Being Run By Small Business Owners.

Some Have Become More Critical Than Others; For Example, The Submarines. And That's The Ohio Class Submarine That Needs To Be Modernized. The Air Component Also Needs To Be Modernized. The B-52, As Someone Earlier Pointed Out, Is An Outdated Model That Was Flown By The Grandparents Of People That Are Flying It Now. And We Need A Serious Modernization Program As Well On Our Silo-launched Missiles. All Three Are Critical For The Defense Of The Country.

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.

I Mean, On Virtually Every Major Issue Before This Country That Is The Natural Purview Of The Federal Government, It's Important To Have Some Specificity About What You're Going To Do If You Want To Be The President. And So I Agree That, Up Until This Point, It Hasn't Been A Huge Factor.

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.

Government Doesn't Have To Be The Enemy, But Too Much Government Has Produced A New Kind Of Inequality In America: Opportunity Inequality.

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.

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.

Conservatism Is Not About Leaving People Behind. Conservatism Is About Empowering People To Catch Up, To Give Them The Tools At Their Disposable That Make It Possible For Them To Access All The Hope, All The Promise, All The Opportunity That America Offers. And Our Programs To Help Them Should Reflect That.

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

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

Measure Of Success

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.

Anger Alone Is Not Going To Be Enough. You Deserve A Nominee Who Tells You Exactly, "here's What We're Going To Do," And Outlines That. So You Know What You're Getting. So There's Some Level Of Accountability Here. So My Campaign Is About This. We Are Very Realistic About Our Challenges Right Now In This Country.

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.

Cuban Agents Are Assigned To A Catholic Church Where Their Instructions Are To Beat, Jail And Intimidate The Ladies In White That Attend Mass And Who Afterwards Peacefully Take To The Streets Calling For The Release Of Their Husbands, Sons And Fathers Who Are Political Prisoners.

They Made It To The Middle Class, My Dad Working As A Bartender And My Mother As A Cashier And A Maid. I Didn't Inherit Any Money From Them. But I Inherited Something Far Better - The Real Opportunity To Accomplish My Dreams.

Increasing Access To Federal Student Loans Has Been A Bipartisan Effort In Washington, One That I Have Supported. But It Has Created What Many Experts Believe Is A Bubble In Higher Education, Not Unlike The Housing Bubble That Preceded The Financial Crisis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

When I'm President Of The United States, We're Going To Have A Va That Cares More About Our Veterans Than About The Bureaucrats Who Work At The Va.

Under This President, We Have A Government That Has Grown Too Big, Too Costly And Now Even More Overbearing By Forcing Religious Entities To Abandon Their Beliefs.

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.

By The Way On Economics, South Carolina Is An Example To The Country Of What We Should Be Doing As Americans. This Country Has A Vast Manufacturing Base. It Is Growing In Manufacturing Where America Is Shrinking And It's Because They Have Reduced Taxes And Lower Regulatory Burdens And Been Pro-business.

I Just Think You've Created An Industry Now, Where You Create The Situation Where Very Much You've Created An Incentive For People Not Just To Look Forward To Having More Abortions But Being Able To Sell That Fetal Tissue For Purposes - These Centers - For Purposes Of Making A Profit Off Of It, As You've Seen In Some Of These Planned Parenthood Affiliates.

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.

The Most Important Institution In Society Is The Family. If The Family Breaks Down, Society Breaks Down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Trending Author

Chelsea Handler

William O. Douglas

Category