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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.

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I Think What's Important For Us To Understand And There Is A Way Forward On This Issue That We An Bring Our Country Together On. And While I'm President I Will Do It. And It Will Begin By Bringing Illegal Immigration Under Control And Proving To The American People.

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

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.

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We Need Transparency In Government Spending. We Need To Put Each Government Expenditure Online So Every Floridian Can See Where Their Tax Money Is Being Spent.

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Imagine If We Didn't Have A President Traveling The World Bad Mouthing America....that's The Un's Job.

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Conservatism Means Re-embracing True Free Enterprise. True Free Enterprise, Which I Believe And Not Because My Parents Were Wealthy, Not Because I Inherited Millions Of Dollars Because I Did Not, But Because As I Walked On To The Stage Here Today, I Walked Through The Kitchen Of This Hotel And I Met People And Shook The Hands Of People Who Are Doing The Jobs My Parents Once Did.

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This President [barack Obama] Is Undermining The Constitutional Basis Of This Government. This President Is Undermining Our Military. He Is Undermining Our Standing In The World....the Damage He Has Done To America Is Extraordinary.

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

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If You Got To [abortion] Centers, Young Women Are Provided Very Few Options, In Many Places They're Not Told Anything About, For Example, Adoption Services That May Be Available To Them. The Idea That, In Essence, You Come In And It's Already Pre-determined, This Is What Place This Place Does. It Provides Abortions, And We Are Going To Channel You In This Direction.

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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.

I Have Almost The Same Number Of Days Left As Barack Obama Has In The White House. So We Are Going To Stay Focused On This Job. I Am Enjoying It A Lot. And We Are Going To See If We Can Achieve Some Very Good Things Before The End Of The Year.

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.

For Over Two Centuries, Each Generation Of Americans Before Us Confronted And Solved Problems. They Embraced Opportunities And Americans Have Never Had It Easy. This Was A Nation Founded By Declaring Independence For The Most Powerful Empire In The World. This Was A Nation That Faced A Divisive And Bloody Civil War, Two Great World Wars, A Long Cold War.

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.

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Voters Decided Otherwise [on Me As A President Candidate] And I Will Focus On My Work Here In The Senate Because I Have Nine Months Left. And After That, Later, As A Private Citizen, I Will Continue Looking For A Way To Contribute To The Cause Of Political Conservatism To Help Our State And Our Country And The Issues That Interest Me. But I Really Don't Want To Be Nor Do I Think That I Will Be Invited To Be Any Candidate's Vice President.

No Matter Where I Go Or What Title I May Achieve, I Will Always Be The Son Of Exiles.

These Terrorists Aren't Trying To Kill Us Because We Offended Them. They Attack Us Because They Want To Impose Their View Of The World On As Many People As They Can, And America Is Standing In Their Way.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

If Someone Knows Of A Job Creator Anywhere In The World That's Looking For A High, Complex Tax Environment Or Looking For A High Regulatory Environment, I Would Like To Meet Them Because I Have Yet To Meet A Job Creator That's Looking For That, And That's What We Have.

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

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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.

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.

I Believe That Every Single Human Being Is Entitled To The Protection Of Our Laws, Whether They Can Vote Or Not. Whether They Can Speak Or Not. Whether They Can Hire A Lawyer Or Not. Whether They Have A Birth Certificate Or Not. And I Think Future Generations Will Look Back At This History Of Our Country And Call Us Barbarians For Murdering Millions Of Babies Who We Never Gave Them A Chance To Live.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Could Be Anything I Wanted Because I Was An American. And I Hope That That's Really What's Propelled Me Into Public Service.

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Americans Believe With All Their Heart, The Vast Majority Of Them, And The Vast Majority Of Floridians, That The United States Of America Is Simply The Single Greatest Nation In All Of Human History.

I Can Tell You What I Believe, Particularly About Mexican-americans: They Are A Community That Has Contributed Greatly To This Country, They Work Extremely Hard, They've Been Very Productive Citizens Of Our Country, And I Think That's True Of Many Ethnic Groups In This Country.

I'm Not Going To Change Who I Am. I'm Not Going To Change Why I'm Running... I'm Running For President [in 2016], And I'm Running Because We Can't Afford Another Four Years Like The Last Eight Years.

This Election [in 2016] Is About Electing A President That Will Restore Our Economic Vibrancy So That The American Dream Can Expand To Reach More People And Change More Lives Than Ever Before. And Rebuild Our Military And Our Intelligence Programs So That We Can Remain The Strongest Nation On Earth.

Of Course There Are Critics Who Believe That No Matter What We Do, The Florida Dream Is Over. They Claim That We Must Accept The Idea That Inevitably Our Future Is One Of High Taxes And Big Government.

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

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.

The Children Of The Reagan Revolution Are Ready To Assume The Mantle Of Leadership.

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.

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

Even If We Didn't Have A Single Person In The Usa In Violation Of Immigration Laws, We'd Still Have To Do Immigration Reform, Because Our Legal Immigration System Is Broken. It's Not Good For Anybody.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Donald Trump Has The Benefit Of The Fact That He's Dominated Media Coverage, I Mean, Literally Dominated Media Coverage Because Of The Outrageous Things He Says And So Forth. That's Going To End Here. There's Going To Be Real Fight Now For The Heart And Soul Of The Republican Party And The Conservative Movement. And It Is Not - I Will Do Whatever It Takes To Prevent It From Being Taken Over By A Con Artist.

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

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

My Dad Was A Bartender That Worked Banquets. So That Meant Holidays, Weekends, Nights.

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

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.

People End Up Fleeing Countries Who Adopt Economic Policies Based On These Flawed Principles. And More Often Than Not, They Come Here.

I Think Republicans Need To Do A Better Job Of Reaching Out To Everyone In The United States. Politics Is Always About Getting The Support Of The Majority Of Our People.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Key That Opens That Door Is Proving To The American Public That Illegal Immigration Is Under Control. And At This Point, That Argument Cannot Be Made Because It Is Not True, It Is Not Under Control.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There Is A Lot Of Fiscal Conservatives In The United States Senate That Didn't Vote For That Because We Understand That National Security Spending Is Not The Reason Why We Have A Debt. Our Debt Is Being Driven By The Way Social Security, Medicare, And Medicaid And, By The Way, The Interest On The Debt Is Structured In The Years To Come.

Medicare And Medicaid

When Has A Democratic Political Activist Been Poisoned By The Gop, Or Vice Versa? We Are Not The Same As #putin.

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.

It's Not In Our Nature. Americans Have Never Been A People That Drive Through A Nice Neighborhood And Say, 'oh, I Hate The People Who Live In These Nice Houses.'

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.

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.

We [the Usa] Have A $16 Trillion Debt Which These Tax Increases Will Do Nothing To Solve And You Will Have At Least 200,000 Less Jobs Next Year Than You Have Now. And The People Who Vote For That Will Be Responsible For That Decision And They Will Held Accountable For That Terrible Public Policy.

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

Legal Immigration

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

I Think, In The Long Term It's In The Goal Of Everyone To See A Unified Korea That Actually Provides For The People Of North Korea The Kind Of Life That They Need.

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.

You Know Who A Complicated Tax Code Kills? The Guy Or Gal Trying To Start A Business Out Of The Spare Bedroom Of Their Home. So We've Got To Simplify Our Tax Code.

Donald Trump Is Never Going To Be The Nominee. So, I'm Not Worried About A Hypothetical That's Never Going To Happen.

I`m Running For President Because I Want To Change The Direction Of This Country, And It Will Require Me For The Time Being To Miss Some Votes In The U.s.

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

I Really - As I Said, I Wanted To Be President Of The United States. It Didn't Turn Out That Way.

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?

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.

We Will Have To Work Around The World With Less Than Ideal Governments. The Government In Saudi Arabia Is Not A Democracy, But We Will Have To Work With Them. The Government In Jordan Is Not Perfect, But We Will Have To Work With Them. But Anti-american Dictators Like [bashar] Assad, Who Help Hezbollah, Who Helped Get Those Ieds Into Iraq, If They Go, I Will Not Shed A Tear.

Leadership Can Not Be Measured In A Poll Or Even In The Result Of An Election. It Can Only Be Truly Seen With The Benefit Of Time. From The Perspective Of 20 Years, Not 20 Days.

Donald Trump Is Not A Republican. Donald Trump Is Not A Conservative. Donald Trump Is Trying To Pull Off The Biggest Scam In American Political History, Basically A Con Job, Where He's Trying To Take Over The Republican Party By Telling People He's Someone Who He Is Not.

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'll Support Donald [trump] If He's The Republican Nominee.

There Have Always Been People In American Politics That Wanted America To Be More Like The Rest Of The World. And In 2008, One Of Them Was Elected President Of This Country And The Result Has Been A Disaster.

I Would Like To See More Of A Democratic Opening On The Island Of Cuba, Things Like, I Don't Know, Free Press, Stop Putting People In Jail Because They Do Not Agree With You Politically, Stop Helping Countries Like North Korea Evade U.n. Sanctions, Don't Invite The Russians To Open A Military Base 90 Miles From Our Shores, Allow Independent Political Parties To Be Able To Function.

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

I Want People To Make A Lot More Than $9. $9 Is Not Enough. The Problem Is That If You Can't Do That By Mandating It In The Minimum Wage Laws. Minimum Wage Laws Never Worked In Terms Of Helping The Middle Class Attain More Prosperity.

I'm Always Looking For A Way To Serve The Nation, But I Don't Believe That It Will Be As Vice President And I'm Really Not Seeking It, I'm Not Requesting It And It Won't Happen.

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

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.

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.

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

Measure Of Success

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.

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

Donald Trump's Views On Vladimir Putin, I Think, Are Troubling. And I Don't Think He Fundamentally Understands Exactly Who Vladimir Putin Is Or Exactly What He's Trying To Do. So, These Are The Kinds Of Things That I Think In Detail You Need To Begin To Understand.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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

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.

Government Should Allow People To Go Out And Do The Things Americans Have Always Done, Create Jobs And Prosperity. And America's Role In The World - The World Is A Safer And Better Place When America Is The Strongest Country In The World.

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 Think There's A Growing Amount Of Confusion About What Conservatism Is. And It Is Time For Us To Understand That Conservatism Is Not Built On Personalities. Conservatism Is Not Simply Built On How Angry You Might Seem From Time To Time. Conservatism Is Built On A Set Of Principles And Ideas That Our Nation Desperately Needs.

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