Words matter. These are the best Marco Rubio Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that’s weird to some people but they believe in it.
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.
Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn’t help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.
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.
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That’s how big it’s gotten.
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.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
If my house was on fire, I can’t compromise about which part of the house I’m going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.
Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
Ronald Reagan’s era can be defined, number one in most people’s minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it – and by the strong principles he stood for.
Anyone who doesn’t agree with the Left’s approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.
My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it’s to solve problems.
I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen – that is my right, too.
When I am president of the United States of America, there will never be any cap-and-trade in the United States.
Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.
The reason why I’m here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I’m running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is… I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
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.
We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.
At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it’s not a no-government movement.
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we’re on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.
We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.
Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
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.
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.
We are all children of a powerful and great God. Of a God who isn’t always going to end – things are not always going to end up the way you want them. His will is not always going to be yours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.
I support people making more than $9. I want people to make as much as they can.
But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn’t be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
More government isn’t going to help you get ahead. It’s going to hold you back. More government isn’t going to create more opportunities. It’s going to limit them.
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.
I think the United States military is operating under rules of engagement that are too strict and that do not allow us to pursue victory. When I’m president, that will change.
The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don’t – that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It’s insane and it’s unsustainable.
Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
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.
Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It’s a sentiment.
Barack Obama doesn’t believe in free enterprise. He’s never going to admit it. For instance, he’s never going to come straight out and say, ‘If you own a business you didn’t build it.’ Alright, maybe he will.
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.
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.
You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that’s wrong for our country, bad for our future.
The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.
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.
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.
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.
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
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.
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.’
People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.
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.
The more science learns, the more I’m convinced that God is real.
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
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.
