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The American Dream Is About Achieving Happiness. When You Become A Fire Fighter, A Police Officer Or A Teacher Or A Nurse, You Know You're Not Going To Become A Billionaire. And What My Parents Achieved Working As A Bartender And A Maid At A Hotel After Arriving Here With Nothing, No Education, No Money. The First Words My Dad Learned In English Where I'm Looking For A Job.you Know What My Parents Achieved? They Owned A Home In A Safe And Stable Neighborhood. They Retired With Dignity And They Left All Four Of Their Children Better Off Than Themselves.

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The American Dream Is About Achieving Happiness. When You Become A Fire Fighter, A Police Officer Or A Teacher Or A Nurse, You Know You're Not Going To Become A Billionaire. And What My Parents Achieved Working As A Bartender And A Maid At A Hotel After Arriving Here With Nothing, No Education, No Money. The First Words My Dad Learned In English Where I'm Looking For A Job.you Know What My Parents Achieved? They Owned A Home In A Safe And Stable Neighborhood. They Retired With Dignity And They Left All Four Of Their Children Better Off Than Themselves.

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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.

It's Tax Day And While Many Americans Are Filing Their Taxes With A Groan, Taxpayers In The Badger State Have Reason To Cheer. In Wisconsin, We Have Enacted More Than $2 Billion In Tax Cuts, Giving Our Citizens Much-needed Relief, Call Us Crazy Midwesterners But We Think You Know How To Spend Your Money Better Than The Government.

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.'

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

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

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.

We Need To Ensure That Our Foreign Policy Towards Cuba Incentivizes And Makes It Easier For There To Be A Democratic Transition. That Is How I Would Examine Our Foreign Policy Towards Cuba.

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.

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

I Do Think We Lost Some Of The Focus On The Attacks In San Bernardino And Focused On A Plan That Isn't Really A Plan And Is Never Going To Happen.

I Think, Again, On Issues Of Energy, How Are We Going To Fully Utilize Our Energy Resources In This Country? What Is The Role Of The Federal Government In Higher Education? What Kind Of Justices Would You Appoint To The Supreme Court, Not Just Because We Have A Vacancy Now, But At Least One Or Two Potentially In The Next Four To Eight Years?

The American Dream Is About Achieving Happiness. When You Become A Fire Fighter, A Police Officer Or A Teacher Or A Nurse, You Know You're Not Going To Become A Billionaire. And What My Parents Achieved Working As A Bartender And A Maid At A Hotel After Arriving Here With Nothing, No Education, No Money. The First Words My Dad Learned In English Where I'm Looking For A Job.you Know What My Parents Achieved? They Owned A Home In A Safe And Stable Neighborhood. They Retired With Dignity And They Left All Four Of Their Children Better Off Than Themselves.

Ted Cruz Said He Wanted To Find A Compromise. Ted Cruz Said He Wanted To Bring 11 Million People Out Of The Shadows. Ted Cruz Said That He Wanted Immigration Reform To Pass. Here's The Bottom Line. I Tried To Solve A Very Difficult Issue, And We Tried To Produce The Best And Most Conservative Bill Possible In A Senate Controlled By Harry Reid At The Time, And Then Send It Over To The House And Have Them, Conservatives, Make It Even Better.

I Don't Care How Much You May Think They're Funny Or How Interesting They May Sound. If We Nominate Someone That 40 To 50 Percent Of Our Party Doesn't - Can't Stand, We Are Going To Lose.

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

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.

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

I Believe That The Bigger Problem Is That We're Seeing People Who Arrive From Cuba And A Year And A Day Later Are Travelling To Cuba 40 Times A Year, They're Staying, And That's Hard To Justify. The Problem Is Not That I Want To Deny Anything To Anyone; It Is The Need To Justify Those Laws.

Well, The Most Important Thing A President Will Be Is Commander-in-chief. And That Requires Having An Understanding Of The Complex Issues On Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy Presents Us Often With Hard Choices, Not Black Or White Choices.

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.

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.

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 A Chance To Live.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Religious Freedom Is Often Referred To As America's First Freedom. Our Country Was Founded By Religious Exiles And Built On The Belief That God Has Given All People Certain Inalienable Rights. Government's Role In Society Is To Protect These Rights And Ensure That We Are Safe From Religious Persecution And Discrimination.

I Think What We Need To Do Is Understand Our Number One Obligation Is To Act In The National Interest Of The United States Of America. I Believe It Is In Our National Interest To See Democracy Take Hold On The Island Of Cuba. And So We Examine Our Foreign Policy, Including All The Changes That President Obama Made, In That Lens And Through That Lens.

We Understand That Isis Is A Group That's Growing In Its Governance Of Territory. It's Not Just Iraq And Syria. They Are Now A Predominant Group In Libya. They Are Beginning To Pop Up In Afghanistan. They Are Increasingly Involved Now In Attacks In Yemen. They Have Jordan In Their Sights. This Group Needs To Be Confronted With Serious Proposals.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Presidents Don't Have The Benefit Of Hindsight. You Have To Make Difficult Decisions Based On The Information That's Before You At That Moment.

Everything That I Will Ever Accomplish, I Owe To God, To My Parent's Sacrifices, And To The United States Of America.

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.

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

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.

I Am As Conservative As Anyone Running In This [president's] Race, But I Am A Conservative That Can Win. That's A Big Deal.

I Think We Need To Simplify Our Tax Code, But Not As A Way Of Generating Revenue, As A Way Of Making Our Tax Code More Growth- Friendly.

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

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...

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

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

First, Donald Trump Took Out Like This Little Make Up Compact Like Right Here, Because He Had A Sweat Mustache.

First Of All, What We [in Usa] Need To Understand Is The Middle Class Is What Makes Us Different And Exceptional. Every Country Has Rich People, But What Has Made Us Different Throughout History Is That We Have This Broad-based Vibrant Middle Class.

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.

It's Impossible To Walk A Block In Miami, In Los Angeles, San Antonio Without Running Into Someone Who Is Being Deeply Impacted By A Broken Legal Immigration System.

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.

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.

The Only People Benefiting From The Status Quo In Immigration [in The Usa] Today Are The People Trafficking Human Beings Across The Border, And The People Who Are Hiring Illegal Labor For Cheap Purposes.

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`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.

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.

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.

What Does Have A Chance Of Becoming Law Is A Process That Begins With Securing The Border. Currently The Border Is Not Secure And Not Just Immigrants Are Coming Across, But Also Drugs, Weapons A Whole Series Of Problems. And I Think That If You Can Prove To The American People That Illegal Immigration Is Under Control, I Think That The American People Are Willing To Do Something Very Reasonable About People Who Have Been Here For Many Years, Who Are Not Criminals, Who Are Going To Pay A Fine, Who Are Going To Pay Taxes, Who Are Working.

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.

You Have To Deal With The Reality That In The Political Process, People Are Going To Vote Based On What They're Hearing From Their Constituents And Others.

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.

Big Government Helps The People Who Have Made It. It Doesn't Help The People Who Are Trying To Make It; It Crushes The People Who Are Trying To Make It.

Isis Is Winning The Propaganda War. They Are Recruiting People, Including Americans, To Join Them, With The Promise That They Are Joining This Great Apocalyptic Movement That Is Going To Defeat The West.

My Preference Is That We Beat Him [donald Trump] Outright In The Primary Process. And I Believe That's Exactly What's Going To Happen Here In The Next Few Weeks, Especially As We Move To Winner-take-all States. The Terrain Begins To Change.

The President We Have Today Is A Typical Washington Politician That's Prone To Hyperbole And Decisiveness And False Outrage. And I Think It's Very Sad - Very Sad To Watch.

I 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!

Moammar Gadhafi Is The Man That Killed Those Americans Over Lockerbie, Scotland. Moammar Gadhafi Is Also The Man That Bombed That Cafe In Berlin And Killed Those Marines. And You Want To Know Why Moammar Gadhafi Started Cooperating On His Nuclear Program? Because We Got Rid Of Saddam Hussein. And So He Got Scared That He Would Be Next, And That's Why He Started Cooperating.

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 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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

Another Clinton Presidency Would Be A Death Blow To The American Dream.

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.

It Was A Very Unusual Year [2015]. You Usually Don't Have Five Campaigns Operating Full Time In A State This Late Into The Process, Three States In. But I Feel Great That Now That The Choices Have Become Less And Less, More And More That New Voter Or Alternative To Donald Trump Vote, Is Going To Coalesce Around Us.

The Only Guy That Speaks At Any Sort Of Depth Is, In My Mind, Eminem. He's A Guy That Does Music That Talks About The Struggles Of Addiction And Before That Violence, With Growing Up In A Broken Family, Not Being A Good Enough Father. So, You Know That's What I Enjoy About It. It's Harder To Listen To Than Ever Before Because I Have A Bunch Of Kids And You Just Can't Put It On.

Why Are There So Many Young Conservatives Now Serving Our Country? I'll Tell You Why? Because We Grew Up In An Era Of Reagan. And Ronald Reagan Looked And Acted Nothing Like Donald Trump And Look At The Democrats.

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.

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.

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.

The Triad Is Our Ability Of The United States To Conduct Nuclear Attacks Using Airplanes, Using Missiles Launched From Silos Or From The Ground, And Also From Our Nuclear Subs' Ability To Attack. And It's Important - All Three Of Them Are Critical. It Gives Us The Ability At Deterrence.

Hope And Change Has Become Divide And Conquer.

Divide And Conquer

Hope And Change

But America Was Founded On The Principle That Every Person Has God-given Rights. That Power Belongs To The People. That Government Exists To Protect Our Rights And Serve Our Interests. That We Shouldn’t Be Trapped In The Circumstances Of Our Birth. That We Should Be Free To Go As Far As Our Talents And Work Can Take Us.

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.

The World Is A Better Place Because Saddam Hussein Does Not In Iraq.

I Believe That The Cuban Adjustment Act Must Be Re-examined.

Here's A Guy That Inherited $200 Million. If He Hadn't Inherited $200 Million, You Know Where Donald Trump Would Be Right Now?

The Idea That More Taxes And More Government Spending Is The Best Way To Help Hardworking Middle Class Taxpayers - That's An Old Idea That's Failed Every Time It's Been Tried.

[donald Trump] Hedging His Bets Because He's Used To Buying Politicians.

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.

We're Also Optimistic About The Future, But Only If We Do A Few Things.and That's A Big Difference In This Campaign Between Donald Trump's Campaign And Mine. And I Think That's Going To Begin To Matter A Lot More Now Because There Are Less People In The Race And More Time To Pay Attention To Some Of That.

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.

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.

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

When You Talk About Entitlement Programs, It's Not Just About - It's Not About Cutting Those Programs. It Is About Saving Those Programs. Those Programs Are On A Path Of Fiscal Unsustainability.

We Live In A Society Obsessed With Public Opinion. But Leadership Has Never Been About Popularity.

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.

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.

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.

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

Entrepreneurship

Bashar Assad Has Been So Brutal Toward The Sunni Within Syria That He Created The Space That Led To The People Of Syria Themselves To Stand Up And Try To Overthrow Him. That Led To The Chaos Which Allowed Isis To Come In And Take Advantage Of That Situation And Grow More Powerful.

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.

I Think War And Armed Conflict Is Always The Last Of All The Options You Have On The Table. I Think You Try To Avoid That At All Costs. Sometimes It's Unavoidable. That's The Lesson Of World War Ii. I Think The Other Lesson Of The Last 50 Or 60 Years, However, Is That, The Stronger The U.s. Military, The Stronger Our Defense Capabilities, The Stronger The Chances For Peace Are.

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

Majority Leader

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My Hope Is That The Pope Francis Visit To Cuba Will Remind All The Cuban Citizens That They Possess Dignity And Fundamental Rights That Come From God And That The Castro Regime Has No Claim On Changing What Is 100% God-given.

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.

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

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.

I Think There Are Some In The Democratic Party - Not All - But I Think There Are Some People In The Democratic Party That Think That The Immigration Issue Is More Valuable To Them Unsolved. That It Gives Them Something To Talk About, That They Can Go Back To Hispanic Communities And Make Unrealistic Promises Every Two Years And Win Votes.

Our National Motto Is 'in God We Trust,' Reminding Us That Faith In Our Creator Is The Most Important American Value Of All.

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'm Very Realistic About The Challenges We Face. Ok? I Have Seen It Up Close In 2010. It's Why I Ran For The Senate Five Years Ago. I Have Only Been There Five Years, But It's Been Enough Time To Know The Damage Barack Obama Has Done To This Country.

We Will Be In This Race As Long As It Takes. We're Going To Be In As Many States As It Takes To Ensure That I'm The Nominee And That Donald Trump Never Gets To 1,236 Delegates, Which Is What He Needs To Be The Nominee.

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.

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.

I Am But A Generation Removed From Poverty And Despair. Where Would I Be Today If There Had Never Been An America? What Kind Of Lives Or Future Would My Children Have If This Was Not A Land Of Opportunity?

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.

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

But Let Me Tell You What Happens When Regulations Go Too Far, When They Seem To Exist Only For The Purpose Of Justifying The Existence Of A Regulator. It Kills The People Trying To Start A Business.

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

Conservatism Means Believing In A Strong National Defense. Not Because We Want War, But Because We Love Peace. Because History Has Taught Us A Painful Lesson, That Weakness Is The Enemy Of Peace. That Weakness Invites Violence, That Weakness Invites War.

[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.

We Focus So Much On How Immigrants Can Change America That We Forget That America Has Always Changed Immigrants Even More.

Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama's Strategy Is To Lead From Behind. It Sounds Like What He Is Outlining Is Not To Lead At All. We Cannot Continue To Outsource Foreign Policy. We Must Lead. We Are The Most Powerful Nation In The World. We Need To Begin To Act Like It, Again.

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

I Traveled The State Of Florida For Two Years Campaigning. I Have Never Met A Job Creator Who Told Me That They Were Waiting For The Next Tax Increase Before They Started Growing Their Business. I've Never Met A Single Job Creator Who's Ever Said To Me I Can't Wait Until Government Raises Taxes Again So I Can Go Out And Create A Job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Welders Make More Money Than Philosophers. We Need More Welders And Less Philosophers.

For Those Who Aspire To Live In A High Cost, High Tax, Big Government Place, Our Nation And The World Offers Plenty Of Options. Vermont, Canada And Venezuela All Offer You The Opportunity To Live In The Socialist, Big Government Paradise You Long For.

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

Free Enterprise Is The Best Economic System In The History Of The World, Because It Is The Only System Where You Can Make Poor People Richer And You Don't Have To Make Rich People Poor.

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.

If In Fact The Rates Go Up Because The President Refuses To Budge Then He Will Have To Answer For That Next Year When Our Economy Is Not Growing. When, Unfortunately, People Lose Their Jobs Who Work At A Dental Clinic As A Medical Billing Specialist, Or The Paralegal At A Law Firm Loses Their Job, Or The Courier At The Law Firm Loses A Job, These Are Not Millionaires And Billionaires.

Humans Are Not Responsible For Climate Change In The Way Some Of People Are Trying To Make Us Believe, For The Following Reason: I Believe The Climate Is Changing Because There's Never Been A Moment Where The Climate Is Not Changing.

The Vast Majority Of Americans Want A Government That Creates The Conditions For Them To Have A Chance To Get Into The Middle Class, The Kind Of Growth And The Kind Of Educational Opportunities. Most People Would - The Vast Majority Of Americans Would Much Rather Have A Job That Pays More Than A Welfare Check.

If Cuba Wants Normal Relations, There's Certain Things They Need To Do Like Become A Normal Country That Respects The Rights Of Their Citizens.

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

Ted Cruz Supported A 500-percent Increase In The Number Of H-1 Visas, The Guest Workers That Are Allowed Into This Country, And Ted Supports Doubling The Number Of Green Cards.

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

If You Raise The Minimum Wage, You're Going To Make People More Expensive Than A Machine.

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.

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.

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.

They're Willing To Accept Changes On The Part Of The U.s. That Contribute To More Money Entering Cuba So They Can Benefit. But In Terms Of Political Changes On The Island, An Opening, Etc., That Won't Happen, That Won't Change, And I've Always Said That, From The Beginning. I've Even Said That It Doesn't Matter How Many Tourists Who To Cuba, How Many Times The President Visits Cuba; There Won't Be Any Changes In The Cuban Government's Posture. And That Is The Same As Always.

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.

I'm More Than Happy To Share With You My Opinion On Donald Trump But I'm Running For President Because I Think This Country Needs To Reembrace The Constitution. This Country Needs To Reembrace Free Enterprise And It Needs To A Reembrace The Strong National Defense.

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.

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.

...you're Never Going To Have A Legal Immigration System That Works If You Grant Amnesty.

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.

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

If You're Running To Be President Of The United States, You Can't Just Tell People You're Going To Make America Great Again. I Think You Need To Begin To Explain Exactly How You're Going To Do It Policy-wise. We're Not Going To Win A General Election With A Candidate That Refuses To Detail Policy.

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.

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

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

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.

We Have Reached A Moment In Our History Where We Think That Every Problem In America Has To Have A Federal Government Solution. Every Problem In America Does Not Have A Federal Government Solution. In Fact, Most Problems In America Do Not Have A Federal Government Solution And Many Of Them Are Created By The Federal Government To Begin With.

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.

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

We Can't Be Playing Around With These Issues [zika Disease], Because This Can Become Very Serious Very Quickly, As We Have Seen In Brazil And Other Countries. The Funds Are Going To Be Used At The State Level, But It Is Important For The Federal Government To Cooperate In The Federal Government's Role.

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

Our Problem With President Obama Isn't That He's A Bad Person. By All Accounts, He Too Is A Good Husband, And A Good Father - And Thanks To Lots Of Practice, A Pretty Good Golfer.

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

It's Important To Be Qualified, But If Election 2016 Is A Resume Competition, Then Hillary Clinton's Gonna Be The Next President, Because She's Been In Office And In Government Longer Than Anybody Else.

As Far As The Refugees Are Concerned, It's Not That America Doesn't Want To Accept Refugees.t's That We May Not Be Able To, Because This Is An Issue We Have To Be 100 Percent Right On. If We Allow 9,999 Syrian Refugees Into The United States, And All Of Them Are Good People, But We Allow One Person In Who's An Isis Killer - We Just Get One Person Wrong, We've Got A Serious Problem.

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.

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.

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.

I Run For President Because I Believe That We Can't Just Save The American Dream; We Can Expand It To Reach More People And Change More Lives Than Ever Before.

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

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.

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

I Do Think That There Has To Be A Legal Solution, A Legal Solution On The Part Of The Nation's Legislative Branch, An Immigration Proposal.

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

The Truth Is Every Problem Can't Be Solved By Government. Many Are Caused By The Moral Breakdown In Our Society. And The Answers To Those Challenges Lie Primarily In Our Families And Our Faiths, Not Our Politicians.

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.

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.

We Have A Violence Problem In America. And No One Is Having A Debate About The Violence Problem. And I Think This Is A Missed Opportunity To Have An Honest And Open Conversation In This Country About Why These Horrifying Things Are Happening, Not Simply What They're Using To Carry This Out, But Why Are People Doing This To Begin With?

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.

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

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

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.

America Is Greatest Country; But Not Our Government.

We Have A Government That Borrows $4 Billion A Day. We Have A Government That Owes Trillions Of Dollars In Debt, Half Of That To Foreigners, Most Of That To Chinese Investors. I Don't - That Is Extreme. Not Only Is It Extreme. It's Insane And It's Unsustainable.

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

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.

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