Top 280 Marco Rubio Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

255. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

257. “Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that’s just a fact.”

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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

267. “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

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

275. “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

276. “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

277. “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

278. “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

279. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

281. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

283. “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

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Marco Rubio