Marco Rubio Quotes - Page 2

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• Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

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  Opportunity, America, People

  "Rubio: 'Conservatism Is About Empowering People To Catch Up'". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 24, 2011.

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• 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.

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  White, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

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  Mother, Dream, Dad

  Marco Rubio's Reply Speech to Barack Obama's State of The Union Address, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

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  Conquer, Divide And Conquer, Hope And Change

  Speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FLorida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

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• The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

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  Children, Government, Poverty

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• 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?

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  Children, Opportunity, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in order to be the nominee. And if you don't have those number of delegates, then there's a process in place.Here is what would be a calamity, for Donald Trump to become our nominee.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Order, Numbers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

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  Teaching, Successful, Order

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• 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.

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  Dream, Father, Journey

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Husband, Father, Practice

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Hate, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

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  Presidential, Guy, Campaigns

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

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  Development, Protection, Human Life

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

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  Dreamer, Believer, Descendants

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Mother, Children

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• 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.

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  People, Poverty, Causes

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Dream, Military, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• 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.

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  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

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  Immigration, Immigrants, Legal Immigration

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Government, Obamacare

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• American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

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  Spiritual, Political, Principles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

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  Family, Race, Ethnicity

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

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• The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

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  Important, Breaking Down, Institutions

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

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  America, World, Can Do

  "'Yesterday is over, and we are never going back': Marco Rubio takes a swipe at Hillary as he announces his candidacy for president". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 13, 2015.

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• 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.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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