Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called the American dream.”

— Marco Rubio

202. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.”

— Marco Rubio

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

220. “When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that’s not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.”

— Marco Rubio

221. “Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners.”

— Marco Rubio

222. “I’m not looking to be anyone’s vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I’ll be a private citizen, there’s nothing wrong with being a private citizen.”

— Marco Rubio

223. “I want people to make a lot more than $9 – $9 is not enough. The problem is you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.”

— Marco Rubio

224. “Even if we didn’t have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we’d still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It’s not good for anybody.”

— Marco Rubio

225. “I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.”

— Marco Rubio

226. “That may not be a majority position in my party, but that’s down the road. You can’t even begin that process until you prove to people – not just pass a law that says you’re gonna bring illegal immigration under control. You’re gonna have to do it and prove to people that it’s working.”

— Marco Rubio

227. “And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn’t contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there is a radical element in Islam, jihadism, that needs to be called by name and needs to be confronted.”

— Marco Rubio

228. “2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.”

— Marco Rubio

229. “Unfortunately, President Obama’s failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.”

— Marco Rubio

230. “Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent’s sacrifices, and to the United States of America.”

— Marco Rubio

231. “The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers – that’s an old idea that’s failed every time it’s been tried.”

— Marco Rubio

232. “You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they’re hearing from their constituents and others.”

— Marco Rubio

233. “For over 200 years this has been a special country. A unique place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. But now millions of Americans feel like they’re being left behind. Insecure in their future and unsafe in the face of terrorism.”

— Marco Rubio

234. “I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they’ve been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that’s true of many ethnic groups in this country.”

— Marco Rubio

235. “As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.”

— Marco Rubio

236. “American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven’t been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can’t accept that.”

— Marco Rubio

237. “Here’s a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn’t inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?”

— Marco Rubio

238. “It’s easy to stand up and say I will destroy ISIS; I will make the sands in the Middle East glow in the dark. Well, that’s fine, but you have to have something to do that with.”

— Marco Rubio

239. “I don’t buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don’t have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.”

— Marco Rubio

240. “There is nothing that we are allowed to do under USA Freedom Act that we could not do before.”

— Marco Rubio

241. “We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world – we’re not in the Industrial Revolution anymore, where you could leave high school, go work at the town factory for 50 years, and retire with a pension.”

— Marco Rubio

242. “I think, in the long term it’s in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.”

— Marco Rubio

243. “You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.”

— Marco Rubio

244. “Barack Obama doesn’t believe in free enterprise. He’s never going to admit it. For instance, he’s never going to come straight out and say, ‘If you own a business you didn’t build it.’ Alright, maybe he will.”

— Marco Rubio

245. “Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.”

— Marco Rubio

246. “The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community.”

— Marco Rubio

247. “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

248. “But also, the practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.”

— Marco Rubio

249. “Let’s stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.”

— Marco Rubio

250. “It is true, we should not be discussing in a wide spread way the exact tactics that we’re going to use because that allows terrorist to know to practice how to evade us.”

— Marco Rubio