Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

218. “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

219. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

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. “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

233. “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

234. “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

235. “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

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

239. “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

240. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

242. “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

243. “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

244. “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

245. “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

246. “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

247. “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

248. “There have always been people in American politics that wanted America to be more like the rest of the world. And In 2008, one of them was elected president of this country and the result has been a disaster.”

— Marco Rubio

249. “If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that’s looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that’s looking for that, and that’s what we have.”

— Marco Rubio

250. “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