100+ Marco Rubio Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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.

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Husband, Father, Practice, Good Husband, Good Father

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We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: People, Decision

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

source: - Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Rights, Government, Principles, Founding

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Topics: Organization, Steps, Steps Forward, Degrade

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

source: - Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Rights, Government, Protect

Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

Topics: Country, People, Done

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Topics: Government, Discipline, People, Makin Money

I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.

Topics: Country, Thinking, People, Clear Vision, Role Of Government

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Topics: Leadership, Vision, Public Opinion

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.

Topics: Believe, Political, Freedom Of Speech, Political Speeches, Political Campaign

I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what's happening in our climate,

source: - "Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Sen. Marco Rubio". "This Week" with Jon Karl, abcnews.go.com. May 11, 2014.

Topics: Impact, Climate, Today

The 21st century looks different. It's been very disruptive. It has created a lot of insecurity. We have to adjust to that, because the 21st century has real promise. Now, the higher-paying jobs of this new century are fantastic. The problem is, you have to have some level of higher education, maybe not a four-year degree, but some level of higher education, to get those jobs.

Topics: Jobs, Real, Years, Higher Education, 21st Century

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Topics: Opportunity, Government, Long, Venezuela, Big Government

No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

Topics: Country, Parent, Matter

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

Topics: Ideas, Remember, Draws

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

Topics: Iraq, Doe, World

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Topics: Dream, Believe, Opportunity, Being Straightforward

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

Topics: Public Service, Wanted

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.

Topics: Responsibility, Hard Work, People

My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

Topics: Dad, Bartender, Banquets

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.

Topics: Class, Ideas, Government, Government Spending, Hardworking

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

Topics: Decision, President, Might

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

Topics: Running, Block, Broken, San Antonio

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.

Topics: Hurt, Obamacare, Government

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

Topics: Country, Running, Kids

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

Topics: Issues, Ideas, Way, Innovative Ideas

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

Topics: Jobs, Order, Skills

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Topics: Character, Opportunity, Long, American Character

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.

Topics: People, Poverty, Causes

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Topics: Dreamer, Believer

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

Topics: Pain, War, Addresses, War On Poverty

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Topics: People, Trying, Purpose, Regulators

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.

Topics: Reality, People, Political

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Topics: Labels, Accepting, Conservatism

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.

Topics: School, Years, Needs, Industrial Revolution, 21st Century

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.

source: - Marco Rubio's Reply Speech to Barack Obama's State of The Union Address, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

Topics: Dream, Mother, Dad, Cashiers

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

Topics: Issues, Bothered, Urgency

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Party, Thinking, Winning

Certainly being governor is an important job

Topics: Jobs, Important, Governors, Important Jobs

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Topics: People, Way, Rich, Rich People

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

Topics: Decision, President, Benefits, Difficult Decisions

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

Topics: Home, Opportunity, Quality, Spares, Free Enterprise

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

Topics: Florida, Years, House, Majority Leader

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

Topics: America, Views, People, Offended You

My parents were workers.

Topics: Parent, Workers

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer

source: - Speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FLorida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Conquer, Divide And Conquer, Hope And Change

I'm not poor, but I'm not rich, either.

Topics: Rich, Poor

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

Topics: Government, Movement, Immigration, Immigration Reform

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

Topics: People, Earth, Poverty, Free Enterprise

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Topics: Community, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Hispanic

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

Topics: Media, Class, People

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

Topics: Opportunity, America, Giving, Access

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

Topics: Believe, Order, People, Hard Things

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Topics: Profound, Want, Able, Without God, Elementals

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

Topics: Dream, Blow, Would Be

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

Topics: Dream, Next, Imagine

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

Topics: Country, America, Special, Born And Raised

Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.

Topics: Dream, Believe, Home

My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.

Topics: Dream, Father, Journey

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

Topics: Country, Today, Faces

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

Topics: Party, Thinking, Issues

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Topics: Believe, Heart, America

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

source: - Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Important, Motto, God We Trust, American Values

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

source: - "Rubio introduces Romney, vision of GOP future" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

Topics: America, People, Everyday

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

source: - FaceBook post by Marco Rubio from Dec 16, 2015

Topics: Country, Believe, America

Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Jobs, Party, People, Political History

Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He's trying to convince them that somehow he's the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration, but he hires illegal immigrants, that he's fighting for American workers, but he's hiring foreign workers for his hotels, that he's going to bring back jobs from China and from Mexico, but, in fact, he's creating jobs in China and Mexico, because that's where all of his suits and ties that he sells are made.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Jobs, Fighting, Artist, Con Artist, Suits And Ties

This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.

source: - Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Inspirational, Country, World, Employee Engagement

When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: People, Heartbreaking, Gone, Contractor

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

source: - Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

Topics: Development, Protection, Human Life

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

source: - Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

Topics: Important, Breaking Down, Institutions

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

Topics: Enemy, Needs, World, American Foreign Policy

Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe the climate is changing because there's never been a moment where the climate is not changing.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Believe, People, Trying

Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Military, America, President, President Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood

If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Party, Splinters, Splits

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Family, Race, Ethnicity, Race And Ethnicity, Race Ethnicity

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

source: - Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

Topics: Party, Blessed, Thinking

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

source: - "Who stood out during the first Republican debate?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2015.

Topics: Lectures, Clinton, Paychecks

Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

source: - Marco Rubio's response speech to Barack Obama's state of the union 2013 address, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

Topics: Party, Class, President

Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in order to be the nominee. And if you don't have those number of delegates, then there's a process in place.Here is what would be a calamity, for Donald Trump to become our nominee.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Party, Order, Numbers

Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Country, Struggle, Today, Traditional Values

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

source: - Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

Topics: Children, Government, Poverty, Government Spending

I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

source: - Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

Topics: Children, Opportunity, America, Land Of Opportunity

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

Topics: Immigration, Immigrants, Legal Immigration

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.

source: - Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Girl, Mother, Children

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Spiritual, Political, Principles

This election [in 2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Dream, Military, People, Vibrancy

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Country, Dad, Able

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Party, Thinking, Interesting

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

source: - GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

Topics: Dream, Father, Journey, Poor Family

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.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Military, Firsts, Should

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

source: - Source: www.nbcnews.com

Topics: White, Issues, Choices

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

Topics: Children, Giving, Want, Descent

[Donald Trump twitts] "Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night." This is true. "The problem is he's chalker and once a chalker, always a choker," I guess that's what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Night, Lasts, Problem, Chokers

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.

source: - GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

Topics: Our Veterans, President, United States

I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.

Topics: America, Debt, Able

The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the middle class, the kind of growth and the kind of educational opportunities. Most people would - the vast majority of Americans would much rather have a job that pays more than a welfare check.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: America, Issues, Isis, Syrian Refugees

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

Topics: Dream, Giving Up, Disappointment

We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Hate, Party, Fighting

70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

source: - "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

Topics: Country, Children, Opportunity

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

Topics: Sacrifice, America, Parent

The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Airplane, Giving, Important, Deterrence, Triads

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

source: - "'Yesterday is over, and we are never going back': Marco Rubio takes a swipe at Hillary as he announces his candidacy for president". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 13, 2015.

Topics: America, World, Can Do

Anger alone is not going to be enough. You deserve a nominee who tells you exactly, "Here's what we're going to do," and outlines that. So you know what you're getting. So there's some level of accountability here. So my campaign is about this. We are very realistic about our challenges right now in this country.

source: - "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

Topics: Country, Accountability, Challenges

Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a murderer and a killer. So look, he's an entertainer, obviously. He's not in the middle of any public discourse here. But I think it's important to point out when people take stances like this that are absurd.

source: - Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Guy, Public Discourse, Stance

If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the main Republican Presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Google the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2016.

Topics: Country, Isis, President, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay

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

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the ninth Republican Presidential debate in Greenville, S.C., www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2016.

Topics: People, Shadow, Immigration

Let's be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It's not about Donald Trump, he's an entertaining guys, he's the greatest show on Earth.

source: - Source: www.abc.net.au

Topics: Presidential, Guy, Campaigns, Presidential Campaign

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Topics: Teaching, Successful, Order

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.

Topics: Dream, Children, Names

I'm not going to change who I am. I'm not going to change why I'm running... I'm running for president [in 2016], and I'm running because we can't afford another four years like the last eight years.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Running, Eight, Years

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

source: - Twitter post from Nov 11, 2015

Topics: Needs, Philosopher, More Money

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

source: - Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.18, Penguin

Topics: Dream, Opportunity, Government

This guy [Donald Trump] has not offered a single serious policy proposal, which is important if you want to be president of the United States. And Hillary Clinton is going to have clear shot to the Oval Office. And so I think there are many out there that are rooting for that outcome, so that he's the nominee. And you can see it in the coverage he's gotten.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Thinking, Office, Guy, Oval

Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I'm not worried about a hypothetical that's never going to happen.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Worried, Trump, Hypothetical

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and we're not going to allow a con artist to take over the party of [Abraham] Lincoln and [Ronald] Reagan.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Party, Artist, People, Con Artist

Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Country, War, People, Proven

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.

source: - GOP debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

Topics: Jobs, Skills, Obamacare, Dodd Frank, Higher Education

If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Wall, Towers, Way

Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.

source: - "Rubio: Obama 'obsessed' with tax hikes, spending that will hurt middle class" by Donovan Slack, www.politico.com. February 12, 2013.

Topics: Differences, America, Republican

When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: America, Waiting, Grace, Commanders

If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all for it, but it isn't. If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. And that means all this automation that's replacing jobs and people is only going to be accelerated.

source: - "Texas Indictments; Plane Crash Investigation; Republican Debate". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 11, 2015.

Topics: Jobs, Mean, People, Automation

For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.

source: - Marco Rubio (2012). “An American Son: A Memoir”, p.185, Penguin

Topics: Dream, Ambition, America

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.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Thinking, Growth, Friendly

I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Country, Children, Blessed, Growing Children

I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.

source: - GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

Topics: Country, Believe, Blessed

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Running, Jobs, Government

The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

source: - Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

Topics: Usa, People, Immigration

Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

source: - Source: www.cnn.com

Topics: Country, Religious, Rights, Religious Freedom, Religious Persecution

Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

source: - Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Media, Class, People, Mainstream Media

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Building, Measure Of Success

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.

source: - "GOP worries about Donald Trump fallout" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2015.

Topics: Country, Believe, Thinking, Mexican American, Ethnic Groups

I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate.

source: - Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

Topics: Mistake, Thinking, Government, Syndicate

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

Topics: Responsibility, Government, United States, Health And Wellbeing

I'll support Donald [Trump] if he's the Republican nominee.

source: - Source: www.truth-out.org

Topics: Support, Republican, Trump

Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

source: - Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.56, Penguin

Topics: Dream, Powerful, Growing Up

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

Topics: Government, America, Growing

ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Country, Children, Isis, Inspectors, Newborn Child

However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of the international community, if the goal is not to fix America, but to change America, then they want leaders that are going to come up here and fight it every step of the way.

source: - Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Fighting, America, Goal, Free Enterprise

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

source: - "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

Topics: Dream, Children, Men, Redefining, Child Rearing

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

Topics: Children, Issues, Community

The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.

source: - "Marco Rubio's reply speech to state of the union", www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

Topics: Lying, Government, Challenges

Donald Trump's views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don't think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly what he's trying to do. So, these are the kinds of things that I think in detail you need to begin to understand.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Thinking, Views, Trying

The government can't change the weather.

source: - "Marco Rubio On Climate Change: ‘The Government Can’t Change The Weather’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

Topics: Government, Weather, Climate Change

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.

source: - Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Thinking, May, Months, Blizzard, American Economy

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

Topics: Dream, Children, Community

I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.

source: - "Up" With Chris Hayes, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2013.

Topics: Law, Class, People

There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national security spending is not the reason why we have a debt. Our debt is being driven by the way Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, the interest on the debt is structured in the years to come.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Medicare And Medicaid, Years, United States, Medicaid

What will solve our problems is a specific set of ideas built on bedrock principles that made America the greatest nation to begin with and applying those principles to the unique challenges of this new century. And those principles are not complicated. It begins with a notion that this nation was founded on a powerful spiritual principle, that our rights do not come from government. Our rights do not come from our laws. Our rights do not come from our leaders. Our rights come from God.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Spiritual, Powerful, Unique

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Artist, Florida, Vote, Con Artist

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Government, Venezuela

Donald Trump says five things: everyone's dumb, he's going to make America great again, we're going to win, win, win. He's winning in the polls.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Winning, America, Dumb

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.

Topics: Labels, Progressive, Come Up

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.

source: - Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

Topics: Thinking, Korea, Long, Unified

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

source: - "Why Marco Rubio Isn't 'Looking To Be Anyone's Vice President'". Interview with Chuck Todd, www.newsweek.com. March 10, 2016.

Topics: Running, President, Vices

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

source: - Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

Topics: Mom, Mother, Dad, Cashiers

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com

Topics: Towers, Tweet, Trump

I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

source: - "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2013.

Topics: Thinking, Law, Amnesty

Are you aware that people who oppose Vladimir Putin wind up dead all over the world, poisoned, shot in the back of the head?

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: People, World

It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there, through the Russian military.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Military, War, Target, Russian Military

Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it. He gave a ridiculous answer on the national debt. And they moved on without pressing him on it. No other candidate could have gotten away with that. So, I think there's a weird bias here in the media rooting for Donald Trump, because they know he's the easiest Republican to beat.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Thinking, Media, Moved On

I would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of Cuba, things like, I don't know, free press, stop putting people in jail because they do not agree with you politically, stop helping countries like North Korea evade U.N. sanctions, don't invite the Russians to open a military base 90 miles from our shores, allow independent political parties to be able to function.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Country, Military, Party

I intend to do all I can to both keep America safe, and keep America special.

source: - Source: www.buzzfeed.com

Topics: America, Special, Safe

Conservatism means believing in a strong national defense. Not because we want war, but because we love peace. Because history has taught us a painful lesson, that weakness is the enemy of peace. That weakness invites violence, that weakness invites war.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Strong, War, Believe

Here is the thing people do not understand. And I have said this repeatedly. I am not against changes in U.S. policy towards Cuba. I just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that they're reciprocated by the Cuban government. That was not part of what President Obama did.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: People, President, Cuban

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.

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the eighth Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at the St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.cbsnews.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Practice, Use, Tactics

I'm more than happy to share with you my opinion on Donald Trump but I'm running for president because I think this country needs to reembrace the Constitution. This country needs to reembrace free enterprise and it needs to a reembrace the strong national defense.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Running, Country, Strong

I entered politics out of a desire to serve, but I have always really wanted to achieve things in the private sector as well. As a father and a husband, that is my primary obligation, and that will always continue, whether I am in the Senate or out of the Senate.

source: - Source: www.univision.com

Topics: Husband, Father, Desire

All of these things we're talking about now, it will take time to sink in. But when voters begin to realize what we're really up against here, and what he's trying to do, I think you're going to see a sea shift here pretty quickly.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Thinking, Talking, Sea

America is greatest country; but not our government.

Topics: Country, Government, America

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

source: - "Rubio calls Venezuela ban 'a badge of honor'" by John Roberts and The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 28, 2015.

Topics: Love, Country, Freedom, Venezuela

We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.

source: - Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

Topics: Dream, Country, Perseverance

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Topics: Hedging, Buying, Politician

For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

source: - Source: www.cnn.com

Topics: Keys, Rights, Perfect, Abolishing Slavery, Natural Death

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

source: - Source: www.sfgate.com

Topics: Political, Vices, Putin, Gop

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

source: - Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Citizens, Humans, Privileged

Ted [Cruz], you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: Country, People, Support, Cruz

We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear.

source: - Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

Topics: Government, Iraq, Perfect, Assad

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

source: - "Rubio eyes 'a new American century'" by Scot Wong, www.politico.com. June 14, 2011.

Topics: America, Century, Decline

We have seen in recent years a large increase in the number of people coming in and cases of people going back, living in Cuba, but still receiving American benefits. That cannot be justified.

source: - Source: www.univision.com

Topics: Years, Numbers, People

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.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Race, Long, Needs

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

source: - Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

Topics: Leader, Working Together, Important

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

source: - Marco Rubio's speech at the first GOP debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

Topics: Country, Baby, Thinking

Because if you look at the debates now, and I have answered it except for 90 seconds by and large it's been viewed as every debate I have had I have been among the best people. And in some cases people argue the best person in those debates. I have been asked questions you never could have anticipated.

source: - Source: www.foxnews.com

Topics: People, Looks, Arguing, Best Person

What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.

source: - Source: www.univision.com

Topics: Thinking, Years, Law, Illegal Immigration

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.

source: - Source: www.msnbc.com