Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that’s just a fact.”

— Marco Rubio

252. “Big government doesn’t help the middle class, it buries it.”

— Marco Rubio

253. “If a regular law enforcement agency wants your phone records, all they have to do is issue a subpoena. But now the intelligence agency is not able to quickly gather records and look at them to see who these terrorists are calling.”

— Marco Rubio

254. “If you’re running to be president of the United States, you can’t just tell people you’re going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you’re going to do it policy-wise. We’re not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.”

— Marco Rubio

255. “Certainly being governor is an important job.”

— Marco Rubio

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

260. “Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves to stand up and try to overthrow him. That led to the chaos which allowed ISIS to come in and take advantage of that situation and grow more powerful.”

— Marco Rubio

261. “It’s not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, ‘Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.’”

— Marco Rubio

262. “When I’m president of the United States, we’re going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.”

— Marco Rubio

263. “To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it. And the structural causes are partially cultural.”

— Marco Rubio

264. “I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.”

— Marco Rubio

265. “When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.”

— Marco Rubio

266. “The Obama Administration’s obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.”

— Marco Rubio

267. “How come liberals never admit that they’re liberal? They’ve now come up with a new word called ‘progressive,’ which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it’s a label.”

— Marco Rubio

268. “I pray the Pope Francis can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God’s plan.”

— Marco Rubio

269. “People are really angry at Washington. And they have a right to be. It’s why I ran in 2010, by the way.”

— Marco Rubio

270. “A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.”

— Marco Rubio

271. “I always tell people I’m running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.”

— Marco Rubio

272. “There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go a university, that’s a fake school.”

— Marco Rubio

273. “Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that’s why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.”

— Marco Rubio

274. “I’m really focused on, is making sure that, for the broadest number of Americans possible, limited government and free enterprise, the principles that have truly helped build our country into an exceptional one, is one that is being sold to and appeals to the broadest number of Americans.”

— Marco Rubio

275. “Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.”

— Marco Rubio

276. “But while I’m realistic about our challenges, I’m optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we’re going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.”

— Marco Rubio

277. “I think immigration system that we have is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.”

— Marco Rubio

278. “I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about getting the support of the majority of our people.”

— Marco Rubio

279. “What’s important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS. This is the most sophisticated terror group that has ever threatened the world or the United States of America.”

— Marco Rubio

280. “If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.”

— Marco Rubio

281. “Barack Obama’s a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It’s not an exaggeration.”

— Marco Rubio

282. “I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.”

— Marco Rubio

283. “American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.”

— Marco Rubio

284. “I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.”

— Marco Rubio

285. “Well, who’s going to be fired when Ted Cruz is president? Because this campaign now has repeatedly done things that they have to apologize for and no one’s ever held accountable.”

— Marco Rubio