Top 670 Quotes & Sayings by Marco Rubio - Page 4

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

All presidents get frustrated with Congress.

I support people making more than $9. I want people to make as much as they can.

Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.

Che Guevara was a racist.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.

I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future.

The more science learns, the more I'm convinced that God is real.

Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

I'm a big believer in family-based immigration.

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.

I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow.

The immigration issue is a gateway issue for Hispanics, no doubt about it.

There's no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the 'Contract with America' was an opportunity to implement some things - like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam.

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.

The breakdown of the American family's having a disastrous impact on our economy.

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

Obamacare's a disaster. But the answer is not to simply return to the way things were before. The answer is to repeal and replace Obamacare with modern, market-centered reforms.

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths.

The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote - happen to be working class people who are desperate to not only achieve the American dream but leave their kids better off than themselves.

I thought the best way to topple Assad was not through airstrikes, but through equipping the moderate rebel elements.

Our climate is always changing.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.

I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.

There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

God has blessed me with the opportunity to be an American son.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.

Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.

Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she's also a singer.

While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people.

I have never voted for a tax increase.

A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face in America, whether it's union rules in some states or massive amounts of regulation imposed upon them, one of the most expensive combined corporate tax rates on the planet.

We've had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, 'What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?'

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.

A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.

There has never been a moment when faith hasn't been an important part of my life. There have been moments when I've been more alive in my faith than others. There have been times when I've been more involved in my faith, dedicating more to it, and giving it more importance.

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.

If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.

The Democrats have invested a lot of time in telling struggling Americans that Republicans or anyone who doesn't agree with their agenda doesn't care about people who are struggling.