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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing Matters If We Aren't Safe.

Nothing Matters

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.

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.

Conservatism Has Always Been About Reforming Government And Solving Problems, And That's Why The Conservative Movement Should Lead On Immigration Reform.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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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National Security - The Military Is The First Thing We Should Spend Money On. You Have To Fully Fund That First. And Then You Should Be Paying For Everything Else.

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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.

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

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.

The Government Can't Change The Weather.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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My Parents Were Workers. My Mom, Especially In My High School Years, Was A Stock Clerk At Kmart... My Dad Was A Bartender That Worked Banquets.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Believe God Has Blessed Our Country. This Country Has Been Extraordinarily Blessed.

I Respect Unions, I Think They Have An Important Role To Pay And I Listen To Them, We Meet With Them, And They Raise Valid Points On A Lot Of Issues Like Worker Safety And So Forth, But I Also Respect The Right Of Individual Workers To Decide Whether They Want To Pay That Fee And Whether They Want To Join A Union.

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.

And So, Whether They Came Here On The Mayflower, On A Slave Ship, Or On An Airplane From Havana, We Are All Descendants Of The Men And Women Who Built Here The Nation That Saved The World.

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.

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.

Donald Trump's Habit Of Making Offensive And Outlandish Statements Will Not Bring Americans Together.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

We Americans Are Free To Give Our Opinions And Make Our Voices Heard. We Work In A Free Enterprise Economy That, For Over 200 Years, Has Lifted Countless Individuals Above The Circumstances Of Their Birth To Achieve Their God-given Potential. We Have Been An Exceptional Country Because, Here, People Are Free To Practice Their Faiths And Worship God.

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

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

Majority Leader

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

But While I'm Realistic About Our Challenges, I'm Optimistic About Our Future. There Are A Few Things, And If We Do Them, We're Going To Have The Greatest Era In Our History. And I Have Detailed What Those Things Are Specifically.

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

Measure Of Success

I Haven't Officially Spoken In Public About That Issue, But I Don't Think It's A Secret That Carlos [lópez-cantera] Has Been A Good Friend Of Mine For Many Years. I Respect Him. I Think He Has Done A Great Job As A State Representative, As Property Appraiser In South Florida, And He's Doing So Now As Lieutenant Governor Of Florida, And I Think He Would Be A Great Senator, But I Don't Have An Announcement For You Today.

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

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.

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

What Will Solve Our Problems Is A Specific Set Of Ideas Built On Bedrock Principles That Made America The Greatest Nation To Begin With And Applying Those Principles To The Unique Challenges Of This New Century. And Those Principles Are Not Complicated. It Begins With A Notion That This Nation Was Founded On A Powerful Spiritual Principle, That Our Rights Do Not Come From Government. Our Rights Do Not Come From Our Laws. Our Rights Do Not Come From Our Leaders. Our Rights Come From God.

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.

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

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.

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

American Nation Was Not Founded On Political Principles. This Nation Was Founded On Spiritual Principles.

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

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.

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.

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.

We Have Seen How Zika Has Become A Very Serious Problem In Brazil, In Other Parts Of Latin America, In This Hemisphere. During The Summer It Can Arrive Very Quickly Here In South Florida, In The Whole State. In A Very Hot Climate In Summer, Where Mosquitos Begin To Spread Very Quickly, It's A Very Serious Threat.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Hope And Change Has Become Divide And Conquer.

Divide And Conquer

Hope And Change

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Legal Immigration

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.

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

And Here's The Fact: The Fact Is It Doesn't Solve The Problem. First Of All, If You Taxed These People At 100 Percent, Basically Next Year You Said, 'look, Every Penny You Make Next Year The Government's Going To Take It From You,' It Still Doesn't Solve The Debt.

Let Us Agree Here Today To Adopt Among Ourselves A Simple And Unwritten Rule. We Will Not Rise To Criticize Someone Else's Idea Unless We Are Prepared To Offer An Alternative Idea Of Our Own.

What I Have Advocated Is That We Pass Law In This Country That Says All Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development Is Worthy Of Protection. In Fact, I Think That Law Already Exists. It Is Called The Constitution Of The United States.

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

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.

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.

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.

We Believe In Traditional Values Because Without Them, Without The Belief In An All-powerful God, Then The Very Founding Of Our Country Was Meaningless. It Was Founded On The Principles That Our Rights Come From God. If There Is No God, Then Where Do Your Rights Come From Other Than What Your Leaders Decide They Are?

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

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

2010 Is Not Just A Choice Between Republicans And Democrats. 2010 Is Not Just A Choice Between Liberals And Conservatives. 2010 Is A Referendum On The Very Identity Of Our Nation.

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.

I Don't Want There To Be Millions Of People That Are Permanently Barred From Every Becoming Americans.

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

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

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.

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 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 Would Love Nothing More Than Compromise. But I Would Say To You That Compromise That's Not A Solution Is A Waste Of Time.

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

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.

For Over 200 Years This Has Been A Special Country. A Unique Place Where Anyone From Anywhere Can Achieve Anything. But Now Millions Of Americans Feel Like They're Being Left Behind. Insecure In Their Future And Unsafe In The Face Of Terrorism.

A Massive Immigration Bill Has No Chance Of Becoming Law.

Our Country Has A Lot Of Problems. When The World Looks At How Bad The United States Is And Then We Go Talk About Civil Liberties, I Do Not Think We Are A Very Good Messenger. I Don't Know That We Have A Right To Lecture. We Are Not In A Position To Be More Aggressive. We Have To Fix Our Own Mess.

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?

[puerto Rico] Losing Not Just Taxpayers, But Professionals, People Who Are Vital To Their Communities. I Don't Think That Is Good. So Undoubtedly, If What We Are Facing In Puerto Rico In Terms Of Budget And Debt Goes On, If It Continues, It Would Be A Disaster For The Island.

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.

But Since Her Earliest Days, America Has Inspired People From All Over The World. Inspired Them With The Hope That One Day Their Own Countries Would Be One Like This One.

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.

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.

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'm Simply Asking That People Who Arrive From Cuba Receive The Same Treatment As Any Other Immigrant Who Comes From Another Country. The Only Difference, Obviously, Is That The Cuban Adjustment Act Will Remain In Effect, That A Cuban Who Arrives Today From Cuba May Remain In The U.s.

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

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

And That Sort Of Victimization Narrative Is Something We Shouldn't Contribute To. On The Other Hand, We Have To Acknowledge That There Is A Radical Element In Islam, Jihadism, That Needs To Be Called By Name And Needs To Be Confronted.

The Evidence Is Now Clear That The Majority Of People Coming Across The Border Are Not From Mexico. They're Coming From Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Those Countries Are The Source Of The People That Are Now Coming In Its Majority.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The No. 1 Issue In The Hispanic American Community Is 'how Do I Leave My Children Better Off Than Myself?

I Do Not Believe That Human Activity Is Causing These Dramatic Changes To Our Climate The Way These Scientists Are Portraying It... And I Do Not Believe That The Laws That They Propose We Pass Will Do Anything About It - Except, They Will Destroy Our Economy.

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