Marco Rubio Quotes

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.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

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

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

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

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.

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

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

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.

America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

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.

I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.

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

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

Imagine if we didn't have a President traveling the world bad mouthing America....that's the UN's job.

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

We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

I didn't want my next U.S. senator to be someone who was going to go up there and do the same stuff people have been doing. But I guess our argument is it's okay to be angry and upset at Washington.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

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.

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

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

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

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.

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 the community.

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.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

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

I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

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