Marco Rubio Quotes

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

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

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

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.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

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.'

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

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.

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

I'm always talking about the issue of Puerto Rico.I also spoke about it on the Senate floor, and I think it should be given the importance, the priority it deserves.

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as refugees.

I believe that the Cuban Adjustment Act must be re-examined.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lack of a better term, of informational warfare conducted by Russian trolls under the command of Vladimir Putin?

I've always said that the Cuban regime will not change politically.

[Cuba's goverment] is an anti-American government.

[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country.

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

The best thing that could happen for the president Donald Trump, and the country, is a full and credible investigation.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

The FBI doesn't sit around all day and read tweets. The FBI's going to do their job. Robert Mueller's going to do his job.

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is how I would examine our foreign policy towards Cuba.

We've learned more from the newspapers sometimes than we do from our open hearings, for sure.

I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal.

A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.