Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

105. “We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.”

— Marco Rubio

106. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

111. “It wouldn’t be bad to have the Secret Service keeping an eye on my teenage daughter. I personally am not troubled by the fact that there would be a couple of big guys with earpieces beside her, just in case.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

117. “For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.”

— Marco Rubio

118. “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

119. “This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn’t bestowed on us from Washington. It comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business.”

— Marco Rubio

120. “My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.”

— Marco Rubio

121. “I’m proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.”

— Marco Rubio

122. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

124. “You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

126. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

128. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

130. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

140. “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

141. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

144. “I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that’s really what’s propelled me into public service.”

— Marco Rubio

145. “For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.”

— Marco Rubio

146. “Oftentimes, your choices are down to two less than ideal outcomes, but you have to choose which one is the best one for the country. I personally believe he continues to struggle to articulate that.”

— Marco Rubio

147. “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

148. “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

149. “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

150. “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