No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
I’m theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.
I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen – that is my right, too.
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics’ dreams for their children to live a better life.
What is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
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.
We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.
Here in America, those who once had no hope will give their kids the chance at a life they always wanted for themselves. Here in America, generations of unfulfilled dreams will finally come to pass.
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
The science is settled; it’s not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.
People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid ’80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the ’90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.
Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.
Our national motto is ‘In God we Trust,’ reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It’s a sentiment.
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
We’ve never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, ‘We hate you. We envy you because of how well you’re doing.’
One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.
Let’s stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, ‘Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.’
I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that’s prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it’s very sad – very sad to watch.
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that’s wrong for our country, bad for our future.
It’s impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.
The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.
My Dad used to tell us: ‘En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos’ ‘In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.’