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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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Nov 17, 2021

They have, very frankly, made no effort to hide the fact that these vaccines come with strings attached.

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Nov 17, 2021

A common story that we heard was that when it comes to vaccines, we think the American vaccines are the best and you are giving them to us.

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Nov 17, 2021

We ought to revisit some of those tax agreements that, I guess, went away in the 1990s.

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Nov 17, 2021

Donating 10 million vaccines to a country that does not have health care infrastructure to distribute them... is that a major factor in how this is being decided?

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Nov 17, 2021

We have seen that, of course, from the Chinese Communist Party. We have seen it from Putin's Russia.

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Nov 17, 2021

We talked in those nations about the effect of a pandemic, but we also heard the gratitude of these nations for U.S. vaccine diplomacy in the region.

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Oct 27, 2021

I don`t call it the reconciliation package. I mean, look, this is a build back socialist plan and it doesn`t matter $3.5 trillion or $1.75 trillion.

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Oct 4, 2021

Last month, I joined Senator Menendez in introducing legislation to direct the Biden administration to develop a strategy to secure Taiwan's membership in the Inter-American Development Bank.

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Oct 4, 2021

I believe this restriction needlessly disadvantages the United States in competing with the Chinese Communist Party's malign Belt and Road Initiative.

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Oct 4, 2021

I will very much urge Germany, in concert with this committee, to join us in boycotting the Olympics, to stand down and speak up against Chinese practices in alliance.

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Oct 4, 2021

For years, I have expressed the need to hold accountable the perpetrators of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing in 1994.

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Oct 4, 2021

There is bipartisan consensus on the need to address the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) human rights abuses.

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Oct 3, 2021

Remake America into a socialist, almost Marxist-type economy.

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Sep 29, 2021

We love what they did.

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Sep 14, 2021

General Milley needs to answer questions about it, because if this is this true, he should be fired. He should be fired, and should he should have to face military justice for what he's done.

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Sep 13, 2021

Even the most pessimistic assessment did not predict the government forces in Kabul would collapse while U.S. forces remained.

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Sep 9, 2021

Absolutely, unless they`re immune-suppressed, obviously, for medical exceptions.

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Aug 16, 2021

There was a bipartisan warning, OK. You look at the intelligence, look at everything before us. It was clear that not was the worst case scenario out there. It was the likeliest outcome that was going to happen. And we kept insisting what…

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Aug 3, 2021

They hack into networks, and they take it.

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Aug 3, 2021

They partner with universities on research, and then they steal that research.

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Aug 3, 2021

The long arm of China is not some futuristic threat. It's already here.

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Aug 3, 2021

China stealing between $300 billion and $600 billion a year of American technology and intellectual property.

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Jul 26, 2021

The U.S. does not sanction Cuba, or sanction the Cuban people, but on a regime that is the number one reason why Cuba is the only country in the world where Cubans cannot succeed.

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Jul 26, 2021

I have advocated for years for [the recognition of the Armenian genocide].

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Jul 26, 2021

I have long believed that state sponsor of terrorism designations should be used for states that are terrorists, based on fact, analysis, and intelligence.

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