Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.”

— Marco Rubio

104. “I don’t want there to be millions of people that are permanently barred from every becoming Americans.”

— Marco Rubio

105. “People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.”

— Marco Rubio

106. “Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.”

— Marco Rubio

107. “These terrorists aren’t trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.”

— Marco Rubio

108. “We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.”

— Marco Rubio

109. “From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.”

— Marco Rubio

110. “I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn’t really a plan and is never going to happen.”

— Marco Rubio

111. “Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.”

— Marco Rubio

112. “We’ve never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, ‘We hate you. We envy you because of how well you’re doing.’”

— Marco Rubio

113. “No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.”

— Marco Rubio

114. “America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.”

— Marco Rubio

115. “The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

117. “Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they’re oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.”

— Marco Rubio

118. “Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else’s idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.”

— Marco Rubio

119. “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

120. “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

121. “ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to weaken our military?”

— Marco Rubio

122. “I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?”

— Marco Rubio

123. “If Cuba wants normal relations, there’s certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.”

— Marco Rubio

124. “I am personally open – after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.”

— Marco Rubio

125. “Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.”

— Marco Rubio

126. “There’s never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.”

— Marco Rubio

127. “USA Freedom Actdid, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law – and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling.”

— Marco Rubio

128. “The government can’t change the weather.”

— Marco Rubio

129. “Ted Cruz supported a 500-percent increase in the number of H-1 visas, the guest workers that are allowed into this country, and Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.”

— Marco Rubio

130. “The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with.”

— Marco Rubio

131. “I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it’s important to have some specificity about what you’re going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn’t been a huge factor.”

— Marco Rubio

132. “The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.”

— Marco Rubio

133. “Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?”

— Marco Rubio

134. “The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.”

— Marco Rubio

135. “It’s impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.”

— Marco Rubio

136. “The evidence is now clear that the majority of people coming across the border are not from Mexico. They’re coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Those countries are the source of the people that are now coming in its majority.”

— Marco Rubio

137. “But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.”

— Marco Rubio

138. “I’m running for president because there’s no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.”

— Marco Rubio

139. “If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we’re going to find out everything they know, because when I’m president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.”

— Marco Rubio

140. “Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.”

— Marco Rubio

141. “The American people don’t trust the Federal Government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control. And we can do that. We know what it takes to do that.”

— Marco Rubio

142. “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

143. “I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law.”

— Marco Rubio

144. “There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that’s why as president, I’ll take this very seriously.”

— Marco Rubio

145. “No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.”

— Marco Rubio

146. “Donald Trump pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he’s telling people he’s all these things that he’s never been his entire life. He says he’s fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.”

— Marco Rubio

147. “It’s important to be qualified, but if election 2016 is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton’s gonna be the next president, because she’s been in office and in government longer than anybody else.”

— Marco Rubio

148. “I run for president because I believe that we can’t just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.”

— Marco Rubio

149. “I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it’s more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.”

— Marco Rubio

150. “Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.”

— Marco Rubio