Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.”

— Marco Rubio

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

231. “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

232. “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

233. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

236. “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

237. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

239. “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

240. “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

241. “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

242. “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

243. “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

244. “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

245. “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

246. “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

247. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

249. “We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.”

— Marco Rubio

250. “Most countries choose to have government run the economy.”

— Marco Rubio