Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
Marco Antonio Rubiois an American politician and attorney, and the junior United States Senator from Florida. Rubio previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 May 1971
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.
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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.
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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
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In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.
I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.
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The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.
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I have never voted for a tax increase.
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I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.
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The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.
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The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'
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We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.
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And when I'm president, I can tell you this, my faith will not just influence the way I'll govern as president, it will influence the way I live my life. Because in the end, my goal is not simply to live on this earth for 80 years, but to live an eternity with my creator. And I will always allow my faith to influence everything I do.
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First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.