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Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

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Marco Rubio
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 28
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For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.
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America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
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I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.
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Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.
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If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.
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Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.
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[Donald Trump twitts] Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night. This is true. The problem is he's chalker and once a chalker, always a choker, I guess that's what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.
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We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.
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When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.
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