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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.

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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.

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

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.

I'm All For Reforming Our Higher Education System, In The 21st Century, To Have The Skills You Need For A Middle-class Job, You Need Higher Education Of Some Form Or Fashion. It May Not Be A Four-year Degree. The Problem Is He Just Wants To Pour That Additional Money Into The Broken, Existing System.

America Is Still The Land Of Opportunity For Most, But It Is Not A Land Of Opportunity For All. If We Are To Remain An Exceptional Nation, We Must Close This Gap In Opportunity.

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.

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.

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.

The American Dream Is Not About How Much Money You Make Or How Many Buildings Have Your Name On It.

To Help People Emerge From The Poverty, You Have To Understand, What Are The Structural Causes Of It? And The Structural Causes Are Partially Cultural.

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.

Certainly Being Governor Is An Important Job, And There Are Quality Governors That Could Serve Our Country As President And Have Done So In The Past.

I'm Not Running For Vice President, I'm Not Looking To Be Anyone's Vice President, I Want To Be The President.

I Believe In Freedom Of Speech. And I Believe That Spending On Political Campaigns Is A Form Of Political Speech That Is Protected Under The Constitution.

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

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

Usa Freedom Act Did, However, Take Away A Valuable Tool That Allowed The National Security Agency And Other Law - And Other Intelligence Agencies To Quickly And Rapidly Access Phone Records And Match Them Up With Other Phone Records To See Who Terrorists Have Been Calling.

The Government Doesn't Run The Economy. The Economy Is Run By The Private Sector. The Job Of The President Is To Ensure We [the State] Have Policies That Allow The Private Sector To Grow And Prosper.

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.

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

I Just Think You've Created An Industry Now, Where You Create The Situation Where Very Much You've Created An Incentive For People Not Just To Look Forward To Having More Abortions But Being Able To Sell That Fetal Tissue For Purposes - These Centers - For Purposes Of Making A Profit Off Of It, As You've Seen In Some Of These Planned Parenthood Affiliates.

Jay-z's A Guy That Wears The Che Guevara T-shirt And He Doesn't Realize Che Guevara Was A Racist. Che Guevara Was A Murderer And A Killer. So Look, He's An Entertainer, Obviously. He's Not In The Middle Of Any Public Discourse Here. But I Think It's Important To Point Out When People Take Stances Like This That Are Absurd.

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.

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.

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

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.

Aren't We In The Midst Of A Blitzkrieg, For A Lack Of A Better Term, Of Informational Warfare Conducted By Russian Trolls Under The Command Of Vladimir Putin?

What Is The Conservative Movement? It's Pretty Straightforward. We Believe That The Way Prosperity Is Created Is When People Have The Freedom And The Opportunity To Pursue Their Dreams.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

I Believe We Must Study Which Changes Must Be Made Now That The Immigration System Has Changed, Because We Are Seeing, I Believe, That At This Time We Are Inviting People To Come To The U.s. On Very Dangerous Trips.

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

The Most Important Thing Of All Is My Parents Were Able To Leave All Four Of Their Children Better Off Than Themselves. That Story Has A Name, It's Called The American Dream.

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.

How Is Hillary Clinton Going To Lecture Me About Living Paycheck To Paycheck? I Was Raised Paycheck To Paycheck.

Let's Stop Talking About New Taxes And Start Talking About Creating New Taxpayers, Which Basically Means Jobs.

We Must Remember That In The House, Congressman [carlos] Curbelo Has A - The Same Law, And It Has A Lot Of Support In The House. It's Possible That It Will Happen First In The House And Then Go To The Senate.

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

You Can't Have A Strong Nation Without Strong Values, And No One Is Born With Strong Values. They Have To Be Taught To You In Strong Families And Reinforced In You In Strong Communities.

My Mother Was One Of Seven Girls Whose Parents Went To Bed Hungry So Their Children Wouldn’t. My Father Lost His Mother When He Was Nine. He Left School And Went To Work For The Next 70 Years. They Emigrated To America With Little More Than The Hope Of A Better Life.

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.

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

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.

But Here's What I Would Tell People Of My Generation. I Turn 40 This Year. There Isn't Going To Be A Social Security. There Isn't Going To Be A Medicare When You Retire. Forget About What Your Benefit Is Going To Look Like. There Isn't Going To Be One If We Don't Make Some Reforms To Save That Program Now.

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.

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.

There Is Nothing That We Are Allowed To Do Under Usa Freedom Act That We Could Not Do Before.

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.

Oftentimes, Your Choices Are Down To Two Less Than Ideal Outcomes, But You Have To Choose Which One Is The Best One For The Country. I Personally Believe He Continues To Struggle To Articulate That.

Isis Is A Radical Jihadist Group That Is Increasingly Sophisticated In Its Ability, For Example, To Radicalize American Citizens, In Its Inability To Exploit Loopholes In Our Legal Immigration System, In Its Ability To Capture And Hold Territory In The Middle East, As I Outlined Earlier, In Multiple Countries.

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.

Some Have Become More Critical Than Others; For Example, The Submarines. And That's The Ohio Class Submarine That Needs To Be Modernized. The Air Component Also Needs To Be Modernized. The B-52, As Someone Earlier Pointed Out, Is An Outdated Model That Was Flown By The Grandparents Of People That Are Flying It Now. And We Need A Serious Modernization Program As Well On Our Silo-launched Missiles. All Three Are Critical For The Defense Of The Country.

[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.

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