Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.”

— Marco Rubio

52. “Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn’t help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.”

— Marco Rubio

53. “We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America’s decline.”

— Marco Rubio

54. “Government doesn’t have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

61. “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

62. “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

63. “I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.”

— Marco Rubio

64. “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

65. “Let’s be honest – Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell’s degree in 19th century French poetry in ‘Groundhog Day’”

— Marco Rubio

66. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

68. “We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.”

— Marco Rubio

69. “This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we’re being taken advantage of.”

— Marco Rubio

70. “For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it’s sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.”

— Marco Rubio

71. “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

72. “If you’re an American citizen and you decide to join up with ISIS, we’re not going to read you your rights. You’re going to be treated as an enemy combatant, a member of an army attacking this country.”

— Marco Rubio

73. “I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don’t realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.”

— Marco Rubio

74. “And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.”

— Marco Rubio

75. “Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.”

— Marco Rubio

76. “I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.”

— Marco Rubio

77. “Here in America, those who once had no hope will give their kids the chance at a life they always wanted for themselves. Here in America, generations of unfulfilled dreams will finally come to pass.”

— Marco Rubio

78. “The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.”

— Marco Rubio

79. “Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.”

— Marco Rubio

80. “My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.”

— Marco Rubio

81. “Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.”

— Marco Rubio

82. “My parents were workers.”

— Marco Rubio

83. “What is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.”

— Marco Rubio

84. “When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, “In God We Trust” for the guidance and wisdom to do what’s both right and necessary for our Republic.”

— Marco Rubio

85. “The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.”

— Marco Rubio

86. “So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that’s weird to some people but they believe in it.”

— Marco Rubio

87. “We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.”

— Marco Rubio

88. “We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.”

— Marco Rubio

89. “I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.”

— Marco Rubio

90. “I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That’s not who we are and that’s not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.”

— Marco Rubio

91. “Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.”

— Marco Rubio

92. “When you talk about entitlement programs, it’s not just about – it’s not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.”

— Marco Rubio

93. “Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.”

— Marco Rubio

94. “That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.”

— Marco Rubio

95. “When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn’t just stop and say, well, let’s wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.”

— Marco Rubio

96. “My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.”

— Marco Rubio

97. “If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.”

— Marco Rubio

98. “At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.”

— Marco Rubio

99. “Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.”

— Marco Rubio

100. “But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.”

— Marco Rubio