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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.

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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.

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

And Yet, There Are Still People In American Politics Who, For Some Reason, Cling To This Belief That America Is Better Off Adopting The Economic Policies Of Nations Whose People Who Immigrate Here From There.

This 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.

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

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

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.

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 Don't Need New Taxes. We Need New Taxpayers, People That Are Gainfully Employed, Making Money And Paying Into The Tax System. And Then We Need A Government That Has The Discipline To Take That Additional Revenue And Use It To Pay Down The Debt And Never Grow It Again.

If You Elect Me President, We Will Have A President That Believes America Is The Greatest Country In The World And We Will Have A President That Acts Like It.

Hope And Change Has Become Divide And Conquer.

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I've Always Said That The Cuban Regime Will Not Change Politically.

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.

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.

The Terrorists That Attacked Us In San Bernardino Was An American Citizen, Born And Raised In This Country. And I Bet You We Wish We Would Have Had Access To Five Years Of His Records So We Could See Who He Was Working With...

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

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

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.

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

We Are A People That Have Always Celebrated Other People's Success So Long As We Always Had The Opportunity To Meet That Success Ourselves. That Is The American Nature. That Is The American Character. That Is One Of The Things That Makes Us Different From The Rest Of The World. And I'm Afraid We Could Lose That Or Are On The Verge Of Losing That.

If You Vote Against The Defense Authorization Act In The Senate, You Would Also Veto It As President.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Most Countries Choose To Have Government Run The Economy.

Muslim Communities Are The Ones That Going To See Radicalization Happening At A Mosque Or Hear It In The Community Or Even Among Their Own Family Members. And The Other Part Is That There Is A Narrative That Isis And Other Jihadists Pose That This Is A War Between Muslims And The Rest Of The World.

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 Chose More Freedom Instead Of More Government. We Chose The Principles Of Our Founding To Solve The Challenges Of Our Time. We Chose A Special Man To Lead Us In A Special Time. We Chose Mitt Romney To Lead Our Nation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Being A Conservative Can Never Be About Simply An Attitude. Being A Conservative Cannot Simply Be About How Long You're Willing To Scream, How Angry You're Willing To Be Or How Many Names You're Willing To Call People. That Is Not Conservative.

That Is, I Think That What I Do, That Democracy In Venezuela Hasn't Really Worked Well Since The [ugo] Chávez Era And That It Has Gotten Even Worse Since The Last Elections, In Which The Maduro Government Lost Control Of The House, Of The Country's Legislature.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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