Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

165. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

195. “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

196. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

198. “Government doesn’t have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.”

— Marco Rubio

199. “I’ve had over $20 million spent attacking me. That’s not grassroots money. That’s money from the establishment. We have always had to take on the establishment. We’ll do it again, because the Republican Party needs to turn the page and move forward. And we will.”

— Marco Rubio

200. “Around the world, America’s influence has declined while president Barack Obama has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.”

— Marco Rubio