DJT Audio Archive: Republican Debate #10 - Houston, Texas (February 25, 2016)

If someone had tried to describe today's America to you 30 years ago, you would have listened in disbelief.

Americans know that our nation is heading off the abyss of destruction, secondary to divisiveness, fiscal irresponsibility, and failure to lead.

Marco, Donald, Ted, John, we will not solve any of these problems by trying to destroy each other.

What we need to do is be looking for solutions tonight.

It's not about us.

It's about the American people.

[audience cheering] [coughs] Governor Kasich.

Well, you know, on the way over here, uh, even getting ready earlier and sitting in the green room and watching the early coverage.

You know, my father carried mail on his back, and his father was a coal miner, and my mother's mother was an immigrant, could barely speak English.

And I'm standing on this stage.

[laughs] It's pretty remarkable.

But I wanna tell you, there's a lot of young people watching tonight.

You can do whatever you want to do in your life.

America is an amazing country where a kid like me can grow up to run for president of the United States and be on this stage tonight.

So to all the young people that are out there, your hopes, your dreams, pursue them.

Shoot for the stars.

America's great, and you can do it.

Thank you, Wolf.

[audience cheering] Senator Rubio.

Well, thank you.

This election, we have to decide the identity of America in the twenty-first century.

But as part of this primary, we have to find out our identity as a party and as a movement.

Thirty-six years ago, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush began the Reagan Revolution.

For a generation, they defined conservatism as limited government and free enterprise and a strong national defense, but they also appealed to our hopes and our dreams.

Now we have to decide if we are still that kind of party and still that kind of movement, or if we're simply gonna become a party that preys on people's angers and fears.

If someone had tried to describe today's America to you 30 years ago, you would have listened in disbelief.

Americans know that our nation is heading off the abyss of destruction, secondary to divisiveness, fiscal irresponsibility, and failure to lead.

Marco, Donald, Ted, John, we will not solve any of these problems by trying to destroy each other.

What we need to do is be looking for solutions tonight.

It's not about us.

It's about the American people.

[audience cheering] [coughs] Governor Kasich.

Well, you know, on the way over here, uh, even getting ready earlier and sitting in the green room and watching the early coverage.

You know, my father carried mail on his back, and his father was a coal miner, and my mother's mother was an immigrant, could barely speak English.

And I'm standing on this stage.

[laughs] It's pretty remarkable.

But I wanna tell you, there's a lot of young people watching tonight.

You can do whatever you want to do in your life.

America is an amazing country where a kid like me can grow up to run for president of the United States and be on this stage tonight.

So to all the young people that are out there, your hopes, your dreams, pursue them.

Shoot for the stars.

America's great, and you can do it.

Thank you, Wolf.

[audience cheering] Senator Rubio.

Well, thank you.

This election, we have to decide the identity of America in the twenty-first century.

But as part of this primary, we have to find out our identity as a party and as a movement.

Thirty-six years ago, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush began the Reagan Revolution.

For a generation, they defined conservatism as limited government and free enterprise and a strong national defense, but they also appealed to our hopes and our dreams.

Now we have to decide if we are still that kind of party and still that kind of movement, or if we're simply gonna become a party that preys on people's angers and fears.