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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.

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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.

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A Massive Immigration Bill Has No Chance Of Becoming Law.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here's The Problem With Common Core. The Department Of Education, Like Every Federal Agency, Will Never Be Satisfied. They Will Not Stop With It Being A Suggestion. They Will Turn It Into A Mandate.in Fact, What They Will Begin To Say To Local Communities Is, You Will Not Get Federal Money Unless Do You Things The Way We Want You To Do It. And They Will Use Common Core Or Any Other Requirements That Exists Nationally To Force It Down The Throats Of Our People In Our States.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

This Is The Only Country In The World Where Today's Employee, Is Tomorrow's Employer.

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.

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

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

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 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.

I've Always Said That I'm Open To Changes In The Relations Between Cuba And The U.s., But That Cuba Must Make Changes Also.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Entrepreneurship

We Can Not Continue To Allow This Over Reliance On Government To Replace The Cornerstone Institution That Has Made The American Experience Possible.

I Am Privileged To Be A Citizen Of The Single Greatest Society In All Of Human History.

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.

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.

The Problem Is, If El Chapo Builds A Tunnel Under The Fence, We Need To Deal With That Too.

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 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.

Here We Will Solve With Laws And Dollars, Problems That Too Many People Around The World Still Must Solve With Violence And Civil War.

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.

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.

We Have Seen That [zika Virus] Has Caused, And Is Causing, A Whole Series Of Problems For Pregnant Women And For Their Unborn Children, And We Are Seeing That It Is Transmitted By Mosquitos, And Mosquitos Are A Serious Matter During The Summer In Florida. So We Are Very Worried About Those Funds Not Being Available. There Is $500 Million Dollars Available From The Ebola Money That Was Not Used. I Think It Is Going To Be Used Immediately.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Do Not Believe That Russians Changed The Outcome Of The Election. I Want To Be Clear About That. But I Do Think That It Is Very - Some Of The Things We Saw Are Very Reminiscent Of The Active Measures That Russian Intelligence And Before That Soviet Intelligence Agencies Used To Try To Undermine The Government Or Individual Politicians In Foreign Countries.

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.

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.

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.

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