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Marco Rubio: “We will seek to prevent them and avoid them, but never at…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Live Marco Rubio addresses State Department as Donald Trump's Secretary of State

Published | Video Starts at 27:47

But there will also be challenges. We recognize that there will be those times, unfortunately, as humans interact with one another because of our nature. But there will be conflict. We will seek to prevent them and avoid them, but never at the expense of our national security. Never at the expense of our national interest, and never at the expense of our core values as a nation and as a people. We are, at the end of the day, a nation founded on a powerful principle. And that powerful principle is that all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our Creator, not from our laws, not from our governments. (27:47–27:58)

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Asserts that the U.S. will avoid conflicts but not at the expense of national security, interest, or core values.

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