Marco Rubio

I am impressed by the resilience of a people that have faced extraordinary struggles even before an earthquake, but yet have optimism about the promise of the future.

The one thing I didn't hear you mention and I am concerned about is some of these nations' association with a Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, or what's known as ALBA, which quite frankly is, in my opinion an…

I just hope that the administration, and it would be through you, is going to make it very clear to Mr. Ortega that if he wants to say these sorts of things that embarrass him with his own people, that's one thing, but there are some…

My opinion is it ought to be one of our priorities, because one of the things that could really slow up the miracle that's happening there and that kind of economic growth is if they have to divert resources to fighting off--

The expansion of democracies around the world have led to free markets, and free markets have led to prosperity, freedom, and security.

It's time to wake up and start dedicating the resources and our attention in a hemisphere which is incredibly important to the national interests and security of the United States.

Why would any nations want to be associated with such ridiculous things as statements of support for the Syrian Government, which just happened this weekend, on the 5th of February, in the midst of what we're watching happening over there…

I view a recent trip through Latin America, a four-nation trip, Ahmadinejad to Latin America--now, part of it probably is just an effort, I think, to show that he's not isolated.

I think it's generally accepted, I think it's fact that Iran is willing to sponsor and use terrorism as a tool of its foreign policy and its statecraft around the world.

I think the largest stakeholder in that is a bank by the name of--it's an Iranian bank--Saderat, if I'm not mistaken, which we know is used to funnel funds to Hezbollah and other groups like that.

We're concerned about that. Obviously, the resources, uranium mining, et cetera, is an issue.

Let me begin by just offering my condolences to the Heil family who lost two family members, Barb and Jerry, on the January 13th, 2012, Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy.

Part of it is evident in public opinion polls. President Chavez's popularity has shot right back up.

The opposition will have its elections in early February and will elect a candidate.

As long as Venezuela is using drug trafficking as a part of statecraft, it will be very difficult for us.

Just briefly for both of you, Mr. Farah, the gist of your testimony is all of this stuff is great, but as long as Venezuela is out there, true success is going to be very difficult to accomplish.

Just he is a member of the political science faculty there as well, which is, I believe, the finest political science faculty in the southeastern United States, not just because I coteach there.

Puerto Rico is a domestic responsibility of ours. It is not another country.

Is there a resource problem in Puerto Rico? Do their law enforcement agencies have a resource problem in terms of dealing with the complexity of this?

So what they face in Puerto Rico today is similar to what we saw in south Florida in the 1980s in terms of a transit point, an entry point from the Caribbean on.

This is a domestic obligation of ours. This is not another country. This is under our jurisdiction, and these are American citizens.

I think it is over 1,000 homicides this year.

There's just so many victims that have told me and share their stories.

I think it's one of the things we can do something about immediately.

One of the things we can do something is about is what you're talking about, and that is the credit rating of individuals that have been directly impacted.