Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values: freedom and opportunity, which have lifted millions out of poverty. At home, these values allow Americans to use their God-given potential and make their dreams reality.”

— Marco Rubio

53. “Let’s stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.”

— Marco Rubio

54. “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

55. “We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.”

— Marco Rubio

56. “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

57. “How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.”

— Marco Rubio

58. “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

59. “No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

61. “Ultimately, my proposal isn’t intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.”

— Marco Rubio

62. “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

63. “I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.”

— Marco Rubio

64. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

66. “My parents were workers.”

— Marco Rubio

67. “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

68. “Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it’s a positive step forward.”

— Marco Rubio

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

75. “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

76. “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

77. “Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.”

— Marco Rubio

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

87. “We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don’t – that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It’s insane and it’s unsustainable.”

— Marco Rubio

88. “If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events.”

— Marco Rubio

89. “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

90. “I’m not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.”

— Marco Rubio

91. “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

92. “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

93. “Foreign aid is important. If it’s done right, it spreads America’s influence around the world in a positive way.”

— Marco Rubio

94. “I’ve got a record in Florida. I’m proud of my dad, and I’m certainly proud of my brother. In Florida, they called me Jeb, because I earned it.”

— Marco Rubio

95. “I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan’s America.”

— Marco Rubio

96. “When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?”

— Marco Rubio

97. “We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.”

— Marco Rubio

98. “We have to show what life is really like in ISIS territory, and we have to show them why ISIS is not invincible, by going out and conducting these attacks and publicizing them to those who they recruit.”

— 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. “I’m very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It’s why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it’s been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.”

— Marco Rubio