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Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
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When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
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It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
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And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.
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My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
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The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
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A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
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Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
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You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure: he kept us safe.
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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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Please clap.
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I'm fairly accessible.
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I have a blessed life.
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I miss being governor.
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.