Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not poor, but I’m not rich, either.”

— Marco Rubio

2. “No matter where you’re born in life or what the circumstances are when you’re born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.”

— Marco Rubio

3. “Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn’t do anything.”

— Marco Rubio

4. “Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.”

— Marco Rubio

5. “Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.”

— Marco Rubio

6. “Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe the climate is changing because there’s never been a moment where the climate is not changing.”

— Marco Rubio

7. “America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.”

— Marco Rubio

8. “America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.”

— Marco Rubio

9. “This is the only country in the world where today’s employee, is tomorrow’s employer.”

— Marco Rubio

10. “Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.”

— Marco Rubio

11. “Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.”

— Marco Rubio

12. “We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.”

— Marco Rubio

13. “The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration in the USA are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.”

— Marco Rubio

14. “We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.”

— Marco Rubio

15. “Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.”

— Marco Rubio

16. “A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.”

— Marco Rubio

17. “Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.”

— Marco Rubio

18. “Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.”

— Marco Rubio

19. “The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.”

— Marco Rubio

20. “Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.”

— Marco Rubio

21. “Nothing matters if we aren’t safe.”

— Marco Rubio

22. “I’m not running for Vice President, I’m not looking to be anyone’s vice president, I want to be the president...”

— Marco Rubio

23. “If you raise the minimum wage, you’re going to make people more expensive than a machine.”

— Marco Rubio

24. “The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.”

— Marco Rubio

25. “The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.”

— Marco Rubio

26. “Our national motto is ‘In God we Trust,’ reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.”

— Marco Rubio

27. “We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.”

— Marco Rubio

28. “Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.”

— Marco Rubio

29. “Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it.”

— Marco Rubio

30. “You can’t have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.”

— Marco Rubio

31. “If my house was on fire, I can’t compromise about which part of the house I’m going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.”

— Marco Rubio

32. “You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.”

— Marco Rubio

33. “Faith greatly shaped America’s role in the world. We are a country that embodies the Bible verse from Luke chapter 12, verse 48 “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.””

— Marco Rubio

34. “I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that’s not a solution is a waste of time.”

— Marco Rubio

35. “Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.”

— Marco Rubio

36. “I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.”

— Marco Rubio

37. “I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We’re going to do well. We’re going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday.”

— Marco Rubio

38. “I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.”

— Marco Rubio

39. “Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.”

— Marco Rubio

40. “Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he’s trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he’s someone who he is not.”

— Marco Rubio

41. “You know that big government doesn’t hurt big corporations. They’ve got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It’s the little guys.”

— Marco Rubio

42. “Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

— Marco Rubio

43. “The truth is every problem can’t be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.”

— Marco Rubio

44. “I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.”

— Marco Rubio

45. “70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.”

— Marco Rubio

46. “I think it’s a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate.”

— Marco Rubio

47. “People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they’re the same thing.”

— Marco Rubio

48. “You can’t carpet bomb ISIS if you don’t have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue those cuts that we’re doing, not to mention additional cuts, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force this country has ever had, and that leaves us less safe.”

— Marco Rubio

49. “I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.”

— Marco Rubio

50. “Donald Trump twitts “Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night.” This is true. “The problem is he’s chalker and once a chalker, always a choker”, I guess that’s what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.”

— Marco Rubio