Marco Rubio

Well, if you look at the Super Bowl halftime show, which was not in English this year.

I am concerned with the majority common American culture that we had for some time that through particularly mass immigration I think has become much more balkanized and I think that weakens us and again I'm not running away from that comment I'm not apologizing for it.

The year that my country was founded, Lorenzo and Catalina Giraldi lived in Casao Monferrato in the kingdom of Piedmont, Sardinia.

And Jose and Manuela Reyna lived in Sevilla, Spain.

I don't know what, if anything, they knew about the 13 colonies which had gained their independence from the British Empire.

But here's what I'm certain of.

They could have never imagined that 250 years later,

One of their direct descendants would be back here today on this continent as the chief diplomat of that infant nation.

And yet here I am, reminded by my own story that both our histories and our fates will always be linked.

Together, we rebuilt a shattered continent in the wake of two devastating world wars.

When we found ourselves divided once again by the Iron Curtain, the Free West linked arms with the courageous dissidents struggling against tyranny in the East to defeat Soviet communism.

We have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought, then reconciled again.

And we have bled and died side by side on battlefields.

from Kapyong to Kandahar.

Together, we can re-industrialize our economies and rebuild our capacity to defend our people.

But the work of this new alliance should not be focused just on military cooperation and reclaiming the industries of the past.

It should also be focused on together advancing our mutual interests and new frontiers, unshackling our ingenuity, our creativity and the dynamic spirit to build a new Western century.

We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.

This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.

We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it.