Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.”

— Marco Rubio

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

158. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

160. “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

161. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

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

— 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. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

192. “I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.”

— Marco Rubio

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

196. “My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.”

— Marco Rubio

197. “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

198. “And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.”

— Marco Rubio

199. “Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that’s possible is through the America free enterprise system.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio