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

152. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

177. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

190. “You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.”

— Marco Rubio

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

196. “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

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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