Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.”

— Marco Rubio

160. “Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.”

— Marco Rubio

161. “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

162. “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

163. “It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.”

— Marco Rubio

164. “Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It’s an issues I’ve lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife’s family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.”

— Marco Rubio

165. “In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.”

— Marco Rubio

166. “There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for President, but they didn’t. I think Mitt Romney would be a fine President, and he’d be way better than the guy who’s there right now.”

— Marco Rubio

167. “All of these things we’re talking about now, it will take time to sink in. But when voters begin to realize what we’re really up against here, and what he’s trying to do, I think you’re going to see a sea shift here pretty quickly.”

— Marco Rubio

168. “You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we’ve got to simplify our tax code.”

— Marco Rubio

169. “If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It’s not going to happen.”

— Marco Rubio

170. “Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan – have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.”

— Marco Rubio

171. “I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.”

— Marco Rubio

172. “After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you’re seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.”

— Marco Rubio

173. “The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.”

— Marco Rubio

174. “The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.”

— Marco Rubio

175. “I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.”

— Marco Rubio

176. “But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.”

— Marco Rubio

177. “I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.”

— Marco Rubio

178. “The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.”

— Marco Rubio

179. “I think what’s important for us to understand and there is a way forward on this issue that we an bring our country together on. And while I’m president I will do it. And it will begin by bringing illegal immigration under control and proving to the American people.”

— Marco Rubio

180. “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

181. “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

182. “Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America’s role in the world – the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.”

— Marco Rubio

183. “Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I’m not worried about a hypothetical that’s never going to happen.”

— Marco Rubio

184. “Here’s the bigger problem with all this, we’re not interrogating anybody right now. Guantanamo’s being emptied by this president. We should be putting people into Guantanamo, not emptying it out, and we shouldn’t be releasing these killers who are rejoining the battlefield against the United States.”

— Marco Rubio

185. “And I think for some – not all – but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.”

— Marco Rubio

186. “The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn’t make it up, the Republican Party didn’t make it up. It’s in the Constitution. I think it’s just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.”

— Marco Rubio

187. “Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.”

— Marco Rubio

188. “The media coverage for Donald Trump has been almost cheerleading. I’m convinced it’s because many in the press want him to be the nominee.”

— Marco Rubio

189. “And I can tell you that history will back up what I’m about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.”

— Marco Rubio

190. “There’s never going to be a time where the Republican Party rallies around and says you have to get out or anyone has to get out for purposes of rallying around Donald Trump.”

— Marco Rubio

191. “ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.”

— Marco Rubio

192. “In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.”

— Marco Rubio

193. “We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.”

— Marco Rubio

194. “ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.”

— Marco Rubio

195. “We will be in this race as long as it takes. We’re going to be in as many states as it takes to ensure that I’m the nominee and that Donald Trump never gets to 1,236 delegates, which is what he needs to be the nominee.”

— Marco Rubio

196. “If you vote against act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.”

— Marco Rubio

197. “I’m not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else’s vice president, that’s not what I’m aiming at...”

— Marco Rubio

198. “Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.”

— Marco Rubio

199. “To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.”

— Marco Rubio

200. “I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.”

— Marco Rubio