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Marco Rubio criticizes the current president as prone to hyperbole and false outrage. He argues that policy changes, like those affecting Cuba, should be judged on their impact on ordinary people. He also highlights the migration crisis at the border and the need for responsible executive actions.

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I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

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I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big…

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A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.

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Imagine if we didn't have a President traveling the world bad mouthing America…that's the UN's job.

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I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

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The best thing that could happen for the president Donald Trump, and the country, is a full and credible investigation.

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I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

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If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.

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I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and…

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Well, who's going to be fired when Ted Cruz is president? Because this campaign now has repeatedly done things that they have…

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I'm more than happy to share with you my opinion on Donald Trump but I'm running for president because I think this…

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If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out…

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Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that…

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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.…

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I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president…

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If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we…

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This guy [Donald Trump] has not offered a single serious policy proposal, which is important if you want to be president of…

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These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the…

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A whole series of changes that are in the code, are in the laws of the United States. If Cuba changes its…

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Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I…

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Here is the thing people do not understand. And I have said this repeatedly. I am not against changes in U.S. policy…

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I think what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the…

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Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage…

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You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or…

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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…

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Conservatives believe that we need to defeat radical Islam not because we want war but because ISIS and other radical Islamist are…

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I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.

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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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I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.

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Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us,…

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The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure…

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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…

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This president [Barack Obama] is undermining the constitutional basis of this government. This president is undermining our military. He is undermining our…

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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…

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National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state]…

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Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious…

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There have always been people in American politics that wanted America to be more like the rest of the world. And In…

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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…

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Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against…

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When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the…

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I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up…

Certainly being governor is an important job

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

Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.

I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can…

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.