Marco Rubio

I personally feel as an official of the United States Government that we cannot walk away from them.

I am just profoundly impressed always by just their patriotism, their commitment, their love for the United States, and how they represent us overseas.

I think that probably can lead to a more productive dialogue and progress because we do have some things to learn.

Obviously, it is deeper issue about the representation in Congress.

What efforts have we undertaken or are we undertaking to close the cycle so if a young girl has been exposed anywhere in the world to education in primary and secondary education, they have now finished?

One of the things that I think begins to change the dynamic is when you can get more women into senior government leadership positions.

Often you have heads of state, but somehow it stops when you get into Central America.

I am also interested in what we are doing, if anything--and I am just kind of taking you to a different part of the world for a moment--in Central and Latin America and particularly the migrant crisis that we now see emanating out of…

I think the next logical step at some point is to help leverage our aid to create an entrepreneurial class of women business owners.

But my point on that front is the next step after the education is to empower women to have a place in both the business and civic life of a country.

As kids across America cheer at the end of the school year, an annual ritual for many of us, no doubt, children in other corners of the globe are denied access to education as a result of numerous barriers.

This hearing of the subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues will come to order.

I am not here to pick on the State Department, as you know.

I warned when I was running for president that this kind of thing would happen.

The cartels may have misjudged the appetite, but they, no question, have flooded us with very, very cheap drugs.

Let me also say that while we were dispensing more oxycodone than the rest of the country combined out of Florida, most of that was leaving our State.

Which leads to the third problem, and that is the number of people who end up in a jail cell for 15 days, go through withdrawal, do not realize they have lost their tolerance.

It has to be dealt with comprehensively whether it is on the treatment side for people to recover, on the prevention side, but also by targeting these organizations who are in the business of murder basically.

I think this has to be dealt with. There is not like one law we can pass that deals with this.

The notion that we have one single, all-encompassing enemy that is called the Sinaloa Cartel... is just simply not correct.

I do not believe anyone wakes up in the morning and says today is the day I become a heroin addict or an opiate addict.

In many communities there is nowhere to take them. The only place you can take them potentially is to a jail where you hope their withdrawals are managed but may not be.

There is still an extraordinary stigma associated with it as if you are a bad person who is doing a really bad thing and needs to be punished for it.

Today his perception has changed because he has had several interactions, including this interaction with a person who, by the way, is a member of the Florida Bar, is a successful, functional attorney whose husband apparently also has a…

I cannot prove it. I guess it is anecdotal.