Marco Rubio

Can I ask you, what is your hope for America at a time such as this?

My hope for America?

My hope for America is what it's always been.

I think it's the hope I hope we all share.

We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything.

Where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity, but frankly, it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential.

Everybody needs to think about it this way.

If Iran had a nuclear weapon and they decided to close the straits and make our gas prices like $9 a gallon or $8 a gallon, we wouldn't be able to do anything about it because they have a nuclear weapon.

And a nuclear-armed Iran could do whatever the hell they want with the Straits, and there's nothing anyone would be able to do about it.

And that's one of the many reasons, apart from the massive loss of life in a nuclear strike, why Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.

And I always believe that it's much better to enter into dialogue than to look for arms and to support the arms industry, which gains billions and billions of dollars each year, instead of sitting down at the table solving our problems.

I mean, my hope for America is what it's always been.

I think it's the hope I hope we all share.

We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything.

where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity, but frankly, it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential.

I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, frankly.

But I think in the U.S., we're not perfect.

Our history is not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody else's history.

And ours is a story of perpetual improvement.

Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal as well.