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Marco Rubio

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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.

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Feb 10, 2016

Given the disturbing new spike in cases of cholera in Haiti, what initiatives is the United States undertaking?

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Feb 10, 2016

I will build upon the success of President Obama's 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative.

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Feb 10, 2016

The United States enjoys robust and historic people-to-people ties with Mexico, to our benefit.

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Feb 10, 2016

Diosdado Cabello, who is the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, and perhaps the most corrupt individual in Venezuela, which is a very high mark, was not included in that list.

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Feb 10, 2016

President Maithripala Sirisena is positioned to lead his country in a new direction that respects religious diversity and freedom.

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Feb 10, 2016

Are you prepared to be as outspoken as your predecessor, Bill Todd, in publicly criticizing human rights abuses?

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Feb 10, 2016

If confirmed, I will closely monitor political developments and continue actively to urge the military government to remove restrictions on civil liberties and return Thailand to democratic governance as soon as possible.

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Feb 10, 2016

I want to thank all the nominees for being here with us today.

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Feb 10, 2016

Their immigration policies are much more stringent than ours.

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Feb 9, 2016

Donald Trump does not have the foreign policy experience to become commander-in-chief.

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Feb 9, 2016

Oh, we feel great, we have team there, this is state that's very strong, our national security and on the military. I have as good a record if not better than anyone else in this race, it's a conservative state with a conservative closed…

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Feb 9, 2016

Our disappointment tonight is not on you. It's on me. It's on me. I did not -- I did not do well on Saturday night, so listen to this. That will never happen again.

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Feb 7, 2016

He is the one candidate who can unite with the conservative wing of the party and the moderate wing of the party.

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Feb 7, 2016

This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true.

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Feb 7, 2016

I'm going to keep saying that a million times because I believe it's true.

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Feb 2, 2016

If you vote for me and I am our nominee, I will unite the conservative movement and the Republican Party.

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Feb 2, 2016

So we've always taken on the establishment, whether it was in my senate race in 2010 or in this race now.

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Feb 2, 2016

Some analysts have argued that China's skewed gender ratio, in addition to representing a grievous human rights abuse, poses a serious security risk as well.

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Feb 2, 2016

For over three decades, China's barbaric One-Child Policy has condemned millions of unwanted or 'surplus' Chinese girls to abortion, infanticide, abandonment and human trafficking.

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Feb 2, 2016

By shining a light on what is happening in China with its missing girls, we hope to move toward a world where every woman is valued and deeply respected because of her intrinsic dignity, and where every child is welcomed regardless of his…

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Feb 1, 2016

I think he's got fresher ideas and some of other folks and I think he is trying to bring more energy to it.

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Feb 1, 2016

I think the bigger problem I have with Hollywood is the values they're trying to ram down our throat in this country and how hard its made it on parents like me and my wife to raise our children with the values that we want to instill in…

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Feb 1, 2016

I'm not going to ram it down anyone's throat. And I can tell you how we're not going to do it, through unconstitutional executive orders the way this president has done it now.

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Feb 1, 2016

I think they'll be willing to support something very reasonable. I don't think the American people expect us to round up and deport 12 million people.

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Feb 1, 2016

I do not believe having worked on this issue now for a long time... the American people are going to support anything on immigration until first they believe that illegal immigration is truly under control.

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