Top 670 Quotes & Sayings by Marco Rubio
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
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.
Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.
If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.
Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?
Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.
I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed. And we have honored that blessing. And that's why God has continued to bless us.
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.
We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They're going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves.
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.
The State of the Union address is always a reminder of how unique America is.
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.
I believe with all my heart that God still destines for us an even better future and the opportunity to continue to serve as an inspiration to the world.
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.
The free enterprise system does not leave people behind.
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.
Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.
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.
Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
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.
This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.
The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
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.
I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.
The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.
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.
Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
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.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.
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.
We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has blessed us with, it is worth fighting for.
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.
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
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.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.
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