I believe in local control of education.
I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.
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. My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.
[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.
I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law
For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc. , but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama and then they have nowhere to go because those countries are not - for example, in Nicaragua, the border was closed. I've always said that I'm open to a study on how can it be changed.
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face. ' I said, 'You'll be sorry. ' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well. '
Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me. ' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.
The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two months, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's best-known and longest-serving political prisoner, was because he finally started panicking and realized that he may not have anyone to take pictures with.
Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.