Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

168. “They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.”

— 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. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

172. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

174. “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

175. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

177. “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

178. “Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don’t think it’s constructive. I don’t intend to become that here in the Senate.”

— Marco Rubio

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “America is greatest country; but not our government.”

— Marco Rubio

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father – and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.”

— Marco Rubio

192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

196. “And here’s the fact: the fact is it doesn’t solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, ‘Look, every penny you make next year the government’s going to take it from you,’ it still doesn’t solve the debt.”

— Marco Rubio

197. “When I’m president, the Senate bill is not going to be what we’re operating off of. It’s going to begin by focusing on securing our border first and foremost. And until you do that, you’re not going to be able to do anything else.”

— Marco Rubio

198. “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

199. “National security – the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.”

— Marco Rubio

200. “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