Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan’s America.”

— Marco Rubio

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.”

— Marco Rubio

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

112. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

118. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

143. “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

144. “I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one.”

— Marco Rubio

145. “Presidents don’t have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that’s before you at that moment.”

— Marco Rubio

146. “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

147. “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

148. “What I’m not – I can’t control other people’s campaigns. If they decide that’s what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.”

— Marco Rubio

149. “The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that’s prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it’s very sad – very sad to watch.”

— 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