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Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is the junior United States Senator from Florida, serving since January 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (2007–2009).

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I believe it is absurd.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 25 days ago Top News

America should always welcome immigrants who want to become Americans. But we need laws that decide who and how many people can come here, and those laws must be followed and enforced, there are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

As someone who has been in these battles for nearly two decades, I am under no illusions. I know from my time in the Gang of Eight that passing immigration reform through the Senate particularly is a Herculean task.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

I think it has to happen.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

At the stroke of a pen, he literally put thousands upon thousands of hardworking, blue collar union members out of work, these are people that were working on Monday—that were working on Tuesday—and then the president goes into the Oval Office and signs an executive order wiping out the Keystone Pipeline and they’re out of work.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

That’s a far left agenda there, the list goes on.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

The bottom line is this— I want everyone to be aware of it, we now have a president who talks like a centrist but is governing from the far left, and we’re not going to just be able to sit around here in a honeymoon period and watch these things happen.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

These aren’t just normal executive fiats. This is literally going down the wishlist of the far left and checking them all off.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

We now have a president who talks like a centrist but is governing from the far left, and we’re not going to just be able to sit around here in a honeymoon period and watch these things happen.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

And it’s not going to be good one for the country and its not going to be a good one for people and for working Americans or your jobs.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

He has ordered more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time—ever. More than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone, these aren’t just normal executive fiats. This is literally going down the wishlist of the far left and checking them all off.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Latest Headlines

I agree with the [p]resident that millions of working-class families are in dire need of additional relief, which is why I support $2,000 in direct payments to Americans struggling due to the pandemic.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

Remember, months ago Speaker Pelosi and Democrats rejected the Administrations previous offer of $1,200 per adult and $1,000 per child. Thankfully, shes finally stopped holding working families hostage.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

I also stand ready to work with my colleagues to make much-needed changes to Section 230 and take steps to ensure the American people can once again have confidence in our elections.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

There are legitimate questions, im not accusing anyone of anything, it is perhaps the way he says... but there are a lot of legitimatequestions that I think are important to answer, not just as a member of Congress tohis constituency, but in Republican House if he wants to continue serving in this important role.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

I think every indication is that unless something dramatic changes, Electoral College is going to elect Joe Biden next week, at that point, I would expect the President to acknowledge that even if he doesn't agree with the way we got there.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Kansas Republican feels very strongly that this election shouldn't have been certified, kansas Republican's going to court. Kansas Republican's making those arguments there now, and that would be consistent with that position that Kansas Republican has. That's not what the decisions of local officials made but if Kansas Republican feels that strongly about it, of course Kansas Republican's going to express that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I don't know much about Georgia Senate -- so I haven't had a chance to do any of the work on Georgia Senate, we'll wait for the paperwork to come in.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I don't think The President's going to go write The President memoirs and play golf, i think The President's going to be a voice in American politics irrespective of how this turns out. And The President should be. Tens of millions of Americans voted for The President. The President brought people in the Republican Party that have not voted Republican in their entire lives. It would be foolish to not learn lessons from that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

That hunger and thirst for political leaders who focus on those issues is not going to change, the question is whether someone not named President Trump is able to do what President Trump has done.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

No, I am not.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

We discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

No, I'm not concerned about mail-in voting in Florida.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

I mean the President wakes up in the morning and takes a breath, half the people in this country are upset he's breathing, at least some percent in this country( gets upset). His critics are always going to criticize anything he does, but that's not just him ; that's just the nature of modern American politics.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

Many of these professional agitators don't fit a simple left vs right identity, they are part of a growing anti-government extremist movement. They hate law enforcement want to tear the whole system down even if it requires a new civil war.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

It means that no single lender is going to be able to come in and take up all the money.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

There is a critical need to supplement the (loan) fund to ensure America's more than 30 million small businesses will be able to access this critical lifeline.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 11 months ago U.S.

I'm reading that some of the big banks, not all, but some, are creating all these crazy restrictions about Mark Warner don't just have to have a small business account with them, Mark Warner might also have to have a credit card, so, let me just say this as nicely as I possibly can : please don't be a bunch of jerks, OK.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I don't think we can assume that we can keep reconvening the Senate every week.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

Its a tremendous amount of leverage.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 11 months ago World

For me, the question would not just be whether the President's actions were wrong, but ultimately whether what he did was removable, the two are not the same. Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

At least there's a path to getting the money out.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 1 year ago U.S.

The time will come to debate U.S. policy. Tonight American allied troops have come under direct attack by a nation-state Americans must come together to support protect them respond appropriately.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Hong Kong police treatment of Hong Kong is an internal matter. It's a matter of Hong Kong police own public policy, hong Kong police have a right to change Hong Kong police law.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We should continue to do more to hold Chinese government and Communist Party officials accountable for potential crimes against humanity being committed in Xinjiang.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I don't think it's a real request, i think President Trump did it to get you guys. I think President Trump did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. President Trump plays it like a violin and everyone falls into it. That's not a real request.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't think it's a real request, i think he did it to get you guys. I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. He plays it like a violin and everyone falls into it. That's not a real request.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I don't think he should've done it but that's a far cry from what some people around here are claiming to know as fact that frankly Hunter Biden don't know as fact.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Do I like tariffs as a matter of policy on any given day ? No. What other alternatives do you have to rebalance what has now been 30 years of cheating, lying, stealing and unfairness on behalf of the Chinese ?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

And given their history of repression, Chinese troops massed on border is cause for grave concern.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I get the sense that maybe it's closer than they (Republican leaders) want it to be.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Venezuela only has 3 fighter jets that can fly, if they ever harmed any U.S. aircraft they would soon have zero.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

It's frustrating, but I am not sure what we can do about it other than take back the House one day, we will pass bills, but in terms of major pieces of legislation, the kind you spend two weeks working on, that's a lot harder right now.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Our diverse community treats immigrants with dignity and respect ; the Administration should do the same, that starts with a thoughtful plan rather than a rash decision apparently made by some in the Administration without any consultation with the rest of the government.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I don't believe the specific victims of the intrusion have been notified, the concern was that in a number of counties across the country, there are a couple of people with the attitude of :' We've got this ; we don't need your help. We don't think we need to do what you are telling us we need to do.'.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

He is reckless, he's ruthless, he has a penchant for escalation, for taking high risks, confrontational in his foreign policy approach and I think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with the United States.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago World

It should have been clear to people a long time ago that WikiLeaks and others like that could have been tools of foreign intelligence used to divide America.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

I don't think shutdowns are good leverage, it's a lesson I've certainly learned in my time here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I hope, tactics aside, we can all agree that border security is important for America, and it creates opportunity to do more on these other issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

It's a lesson I've certainly learned in my time here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We encouraged the President today to follow through with what he's already declared, which is that Maduro is illegitimate. The next logical step is to recognize the president of National Assembly as the rightful president, the administration is by no means trying to make these efforts bipartisan, even if we are the lead on the issue.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Potentially, I have to see the proposal, it depends how it's constructed. I don't want to take away any of the President's leverage, but I don't think shutdowns are good for him -- or for us or for anyone. It's certainly not good for Americans.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I don't care how much money it is, there isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights. ... Just because a country we're working with did it doesn't mean the US can just shrug its shoulders and say nothing happened here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

We can't say anything about that if we allow Saudi Arabia to do Saudi Arabia and all we do is a diplomatic slap on the wrist.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Just because they're an ally in an important mission, which is containing Iranian expansion in the region, can not allow us to overlook or walk away from that. It undermines our ability to stand for morality and human rights all over the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

If they lured this man into that consulate, they went medieval on him, and he was killed and he was chopped up and they sent a death crew down there to kill Jamal Khashoggi and do all this, that would be an outrage.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

It will take shape in the next couple of days, i certainly expect our legislation to be in the mix.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

You know what they say about men with small hands.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

It's not traditional to the Republican and conservative movement, if we're going to truly be pro-family, then we have to provide people options for that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

There's criticism of it because people don't want to touch Social Security so we've got to see what the numbers are and make sure we're not also undermining the program which is not our intent.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

If we're just talking football... there aren't 63 better quarterbacks in the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they're going to take the money they're saving and reinvest it in American workers, in fact, they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses ; there's no evidence whatsoever that the money's been massively poured back into the American worker.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

China knows there are those in the administration that desperately want a deal.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Business

Making changes to their board and a fine won't stop them from spying and stealing from us. But this is too important to be over. We will begin working on veto-proof congressional action.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Business

I hope the administration does not move forward on this supposed deal I keep reading about.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

They are basically conducting an all-out assault to steal what we've already developed and use it as the baseline for their development so they can supplant us as the leader in the most important technologies of the 21st century.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

Clearly President Xi personally intervened for #ZTE but replacing sanctions with fine of $300/$400 million is not a good deal, we have leverage to bring fairness back to relationship with #China whose other tech firms Tsinghua,Huawei,BBK,Yiomi & Lenovo rely on U.S. chips as well.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Business

I hope this isn't the beginning of backing down to China, we are crazy to allow them to operate in U.S. without tighter restrictions.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

I hope this isn't the beginning of backing down to China.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

We are crazy to allow them to operate in U.S. without tighter restrictions.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

They bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there's no evidence whatsoever that the money's been massively poured back into the American worker.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Top News

The biggest public service John Kerry can render now is to go away.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

The one project we're really going to focus on this year is breaking the info blockade.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 2 years ago World

I personally have been searching for things that we can do quickly, if you begin to do the things you agree on, it creates a level of momentum.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Our attention span in this country on virtually every issue is 7 to 10 days, and then we pivot. We're one tweet or one story away from focusing on something else.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

There’s this false narrative out there that says just because you want to deal with mental illness means you don’t want to deal with the gun part. I’m willing to deal with the gun part. I don’t think people like this guy or people like him should be able to have any gun, not an AR-15, any gun. We need to create a system that keeps them from getting it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

There is no difference in growth between 20 and 22.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

EPA feels they got a handle on it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

It should influence everything we do with Iran moving forward, how this case is handled up to this point and from this point forward will in many ways determine U.S. policy towards Iran.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I certainly believe that everything we do – whether Fox News’s pressure on Iran, outreach to Iran or working through third parties – should all be predicated on the assumption that he is alive and that his return to his family is still possible.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

What those are, obviously the administration will make a determination.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

I'm much more forceful and open and vocal about criticizing, whether it's Egypt or Saudi Arabia for its human rights record, the White House is convinced they can get better results by addressing those issues in private, one-on-one.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If any president tries to impede an investigation -- any president, no matter who it is -- by interfering with the FBI, yes that would be problematic. Not just problematic, it would be obviously, you know, a potential obstruction of justice that people have to make a decision on -- any president, that said, we don't know if that's what happened here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This cloud is impacting everything else.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'm not disputing the press accounts, but I am also not going to accept them.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Did he keep these memos?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

No, we need to talk today -- and we will.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We need to talk today -- and we will.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I have very specific questions and hope they will be answered at some point today.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Basically, the parliamentarian told me, i don't have any initial reaction because I don't have any information.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Once they are out, the armed forces will not be able to control them. Any weapon handed out could end up in the hands of Colombian guerrillas, in the hands of drug trafficking groups or they could even end up in the hands of arms traffickers willing to sell them to terrorists.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

Congress and the White House should work together to hold the Bashar Assad regime accountable for its war crimes and impose harsh sanctions against its enablers.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

By acting decisively against the very facility from which Assad launched his murderous chemical weapons attack, President Trump has made it clear to Assad and those who empower him that the days of committing war crimes with impunity are over.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

You cannot have a stable Syria without jihadist elements on the ground as long as Bashar al-Assad is in power.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It had to be done.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We don’t have 535 commanders-in-chief, we have one.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

This is the area from which those chemical attacks were launched, it's the place you were going to see future attacks come from, particularly targeting innocent civilians.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I'll let them speak for their policy, but tonight's actions show that the days of being able to act with impunity are over when it comes to Bashar al-Assad, there is now an American President prepared to do what it takes to ensure that he does not have the capability, or that his capability to conduct these sort of heinous war crimes is diminished and that he's held accountable.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

They have no standing to say anything about this.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

If the Russians are there on the ground assisting Assad in the commission of these heinous crimes -- war crimes -- they should answer for that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We know that for the better part of this year Assad has been using chlorine bombs against innocent civilians and population centers, and now ... a couple days ago, a nerve agent, sarin.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

My belief that if you're Bashar al-Assad and you read that it is no longer a priority of the United States to have you removed from power, I believe that that is an incentive to act with impunity.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

In this case now, we have very limited options and look, it's concerning that the secretary of state, 72 hours ago or a week ago, last Friday, said that the future's up to the people in Syria on what happens with Assad. In essence almost nodding to the idea that Assad was gonna get to stay in some capacity.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

In this case now, we have very limited options and look, it's concerning that the secretary of state, 72 hours ago or a week ago, last Friday, said that the future's up to the people in Syria on what happens with Assad. In essence, almost nodding to the idea that Assad was going to get to stay in some capacity.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

By any objective measure, President Obama’s unilateral policy changes have failed, and they are not in the best interest of the American people or the people of Cuba, rolling back President Obama's one-sided concessions to the Castro regime, a key campaign promise shared with President-elect Trump, will be a top priority for me next year.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

I wish we had better choices for President, but I do not want Hillary Clinton to be our next President. And therefore my position has not changed.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I hope we'll return to Washington quickly, take a day and just pass this funding measure so we can start to get funds flowing.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago U.S.

The growing threat of the Zika virus as a full-blown public health crisis in the United States is a clear call to action.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Health

I changed my mind.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

It's a place you can still move on some major issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

When it visits your home state, when it impacts a community you know well, it really gives you pause to think a little bit about your service to your country and where you can be most useful to your country, my family and I will be praying about all this and we'll see what I need to do next with my life in regards to how I can best serve.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

It really gives you pause to think a little bit about, you know, your service to your country and where you can be most useful to your country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think that's a safe assumption.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

It's not just a thought experiment, it's actually been proposed.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

This is going to be an ongoing issue beyond this year.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health

For the first time, I've seen high-level conversations about a way forward here in the Senate and that's a positive development.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health

There has not been a single democratic opening; not a single change on the island in human rights, in fact, things are worse than they were before this opening.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

America is in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami and we should have seen this coming, while we are on the right side.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We live in a republic and our voters make these decisions.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

While we are on the right side.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It is clear that while we are on the right side this year, we will not be on the winning side.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

While this may not have been the year for a hopeful and optimistic message about our future, I still remain hopeful and optimist about America.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

Obviously the difference is we’ll either be in Utah with a lot of momentum with the wind at our back or we’ll be in Utah after a disappointing night but we’ll be there nonetheless.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

What he is doing is, he is trying to replace us as the single most important power broker in the Middle East.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Tomorrow our plan is to be in Utah campaigning irrespective of tonight. It would be a lot better to go to Utah being the winner of the Florida primary. It will give us a tremendous amount of momentum, it will give us 99 delegates, and that's the way we want to do it tonight.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

January of next year, I will either be president of the United States or I will be a private citizen. If I never hold elected office again, I'm comfortable with that, i can't tell you what's going to happen two to four years from now but I have no plans, no thoughts, no contemplation, no meetings, nothing, about any future political run of any sort.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The only thing that's changed as a result of this opening is that now the Cuban government has more sources of money from which to build out their repressive apparatus.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Despite all this noise that's out there, he needs 60% of the delegates from this point forward in order to be the nominee. Ted Cruz by the way needs 75% of the remaining delegates to be the nominee. That's the real math, i at the end of the day do not believe that Donald Trump will be our nominee and I'm going to do everything possible to keep that from happening and to give the party a choice in me, someone that people aren't going to have to be asked that question about.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think we're having a battle to define conservatism in the Republican Party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We are being ripped apart as a nation, the President bears some responsibility for some of his rhetoric. People are angry.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

What we need to do for young people in America is give them the chance to fulfill their potential ... That won't happen if we have huge debt and an economy that isn't growing. So we're going to put in policies that help us reduce our debt, grow the economy, and, by the way, deal with student loan debt.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I've never talked to John Kasich about this. Clearly John Kasich has a better chance of winning in Ohio and if a voter concludes that that's the best chance to beat Donald Trump, in Ohio, then they will do that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This is stuff from 'House of Cards,' it's not real life.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

A vote for Ted Cruz and a vote for John Kasich in Florida is a vote for Donald Trump.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The problem is presidents can’t just say whatever they want, i’m not interested in being politically correct. … I’m interested in being correct.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

You’re still going to have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficit that you’re going to have to make up.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Presidents can't just say what they want. It has consequences, i don't want to be so politically correct.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The numbers don't add up.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

My kids were embarrassed by it and I, you know, if I had to do it again I wouldn't.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

There should be no confusion in the minds of our enemies that, if captured, they will be sent to the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to be interrogated.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I believe with all my heart that the winner of the Florida primary next Tuesday will be the nominee of the Republican Party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It’s crunch time now, i want to win.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

I will always have tremendous affection and respect for him despite the fact that -- because of a weird quirk of fate -- we ended up running for the same office at the same time, i did not run for president to stop Jeb Bush. I ran for president because I believe that America's greatest days lie ahead if we do what needs to be done right now in 2016.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There will be more delegates awarded in Florida than basically any other state that voted tonight combined, there are clearly states in which some of my opponents do better than us because it fits the profile they've targeted. We understood that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

That is the quandary I'm trying to avoid The Republican Party having to face.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Donald Trump has basically mocked everybody with personal attacks, if there’s anyone who’s ever deserved to be attacked that way, it’s Donald Trump.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

He's always calling me Little Marco. And I'll admit he's taller than me. He's like 6'2, which is why I don't understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5'2, and you know what they say about men with small hands? You can't trust them.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Donald Trump has basically mocked everybody with personal attacks, if there’s anyone who’s ever deserved to be attacked that way, it’s Donald Trump.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

The primary's over, I mean, by the admission of the candidates who have admitted they can't win the primary, they've said the only way they can win is at a floor fight in Tampa. And I think that a floor fight in Tampa would be the worst possible thing we can do in terms of winning in November.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think we are at a stage now where at least two of the candidates have openly admitted that the only way they're going to be able to win the nomination is to have a floor fight in Tampa in August, there's no way that anyone can convince me that having a floor fight at the convention in Tampa in August is a recipe for victory in November. On the contrary, I think it's a recipe for disaster.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Well, I had hoped in this process we would have -- the voters would wake up and see what Donald Trump is, a con artist, and I think we were all caught off guard by how much the attention in coverage has really lifted him.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If I win Florida, what does that math look like ?

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Sixty-five percent of the people who voted yesterday across Super Tuesday did not vote for Donald Trump, he underperformed in virtually every state of the map.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

Let’s not forget that last night was supposed to be Ted Cruz’s big night. It was the night where he was going to sweep. The states were tailor made for the kind of campaign he was running. We beat him in Georgia. We beat him in half the states on the map.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

That's where we're really going to catch fire.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

We basically fought Donald Trump to a draw. And had it been a narrower field, we would have won Virginia.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

We never said SuperTuesdaywas going to be our night.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

Every now and then, someone like that needs a taste of their own medicine because that's called a bully and he’s using the pulpit of the presidency or the presidential run to insult people.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

You say, 'David Duke' to me, I say, 'racist,' immediately, why wouldn't he condemn the Ku Klux Klan? There is no room in the conservative movement and there is no room in the Republican Party for members of the Ku Klux Klan or racists like David Duke.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I don't care how bad the earpiece is, Ku Klux Klan comes through pretty clearly.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

You know what my ears are? They're the way God made them.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Unfortunately today, there are a significant number of our fellow Americans in the Republican Party who have chosen, at least for the moment, to support someone who appeals to their fears and anxieties.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There are people who borrowed $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they're suing now — $36,000 to go to a university that's a fake school, and you know what they got? They got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

I believe he is a first-rate con artist and is on the verge of taking over the party of Lincoln and Reagan.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Absolutely, we can [ continue ] because we’re going to pick up a lot of delegates.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

I think part of it is he's not as rich as he says he is.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

He's learning how to spell, but he's flying around on 'Hair Force One' and tweeting. So here's the one tweet he put out. He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Our party, after four states have voted, according to all the polls, is on the verge of being taken over. The party of Lincoln and Reagan is on the verge of being taken over by a con artist named Donald Trump.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

He’s a con man who’s taking advantage of people's fears and anxieties about the future, portraying himself as some sort of strong guy, he’s not a strong guy. He’s never faced real adversity before.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

Guys, we have a con artist as the front-runner of the Republican Party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

It's not that I look like a little boy, i wouldn't even be the youngest president -- but he would be the oldest president ever elected, and that's like an eight year term, so you start to worry.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

It's time to pull his mask off so people can see what we are dealing with here, friends do not let friends vote for con artists.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

He called me Mr. Meltdown.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Donald Trump has never punched anyone in the face. Donald Trump was the first guy that begged for Secret Service protection.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

My father was a bartender at a hotel and my mother was a maid, the kind of people Donald Trump hires from other countries.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

'He is a chocker. And once a chocker, always a' -- a choker, I guess that's what he meant to say.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This is the most important government job on the planet. And we're about to turn over the conservative movement to a person that has no ideas of any substance on the important issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

A lot of these positions that he's taken now are new to him.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

We have an incredible decision to make, not just about the direction of America but the identity of our party and the conservative movement. The time for games is over, i know you had a lot of choices to make, but now it's time to narrow it down and I'm asking you to get behind me ... so we can bring an end to this silliness, this looniness.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

You're the only person on this stage that's ever been fined for hiring people to work on your project illegally.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I guess there's a statute of limitations on lies.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

The position you've taken is an anti-Israel position.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

This guy’s a choke artist. And this guy’s a liar.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

It's bad for our economy, it's a health care law that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It's not just a bad health care law, it's a job-killing law, and I will repeal it as president and we will replace it with something substantially better for all Americans.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The problem with the executive order is it is unconstitutional, the President doesn't have the power to do that. And he himself admitted that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Now he’s repeating himself.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I guess there’s a statute of limitations on lies.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

We cannot have a commander in chief that is not ready the first day in office, because Valdimir Putin is not going to wait for the next president to catch up, there is no honeymoon period in foreign policy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Here's what we cannot do, we cannot pass policies that will do nothing for the environment but will destroy our economy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

You're from Texas, you know what he said.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This has become a three-person race, and we will win the nomination.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the veterans or to the disabled like he’s been telling us he’s been doing. I think that’s the reason there’s a bombshell [in his returns].

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Until there's some consolidation here, you're not going to have a clear alternative to Donald Trump, if we don't come together, we're never going to be able to provide a clear alternative to the direction that Donald Trump wants to take the Republican Party and the country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think that's been pretty clear now, The problem is that they're divided up among four people ... in South Carolina it was five people. Before that it was seven people.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We will win in Florida.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I am as conservative as anyone else in this race, but I am a conservative who will win this race.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Donald has a base of support and if the majority of our party doesn't want him as our nominee, we'll continue to work toward consolidating that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The culture of that campaign is to make things up and say things that aren't true every single day.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Obviously I have ties to Las Vegas that run deep given my time growing up here. ... but I'm not sure that's going to be enough to simply be a determinate factor in the caucus, i think it's going to be like every other candidate that's coming in, we're going to have to compete hard.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The sooner we coalesce, the better we can do as a party, it’s going to happen one way or another.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

You're down to three candidates who are running full-scale national campaigns.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I didn't just become a conservative two years ago, but I'm a conservative who can unite our party, grow our party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Who do the Democrats fear most? Who do they not want to run against? I think everyone now acknowledges that's me, we've got to bring the Republican Party together. We're not gonna win -- we're not going to beat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders -- if we're still divided in September or October.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Tonight here in South Carolina, the message is pretty clear, the country is now ready for a new generation of conservatives to guide us into the 21st century.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I give us the best chance to unify.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Look, this is a pattern. This is a game he plays. He says something that's edgy and outrageous and then the media flocks and covers that and then no one else can get any coverage on anything else, and that worked when there were 15 people running for president. It's not going to work anymore. I'm going to spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

And that worked when there were 15 people running for president. It's not going to work anymore. I'm going to spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This country is now ready for a new generation of conservatives to lead us into the 21st century.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

I have no problem whatsoever with people of either gender serving in combat so long as the minimum requirements necessary to do the job are not compromised, now that that is the case, I do believe Selective Service should be opened up for both men and women.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Marco Rubio and Barack Obama have shaken hands. There are plenty of photos of him shaking hands, if they don’t like the picture we picked, then send me a picture they like of Marco Rubio shaking hands with Barack Obama and we’ll swap it out.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

I said that DACA has to go away and that it will, i will on my first day in office get rid of it because it's unconstitutional.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't think we can immediately revoke that, it cannot be the permanent policy of the United States, but I'm not calling for it to be revoked tomorrow, or this week or right away.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think the Holy Father recognizes or should recognize -- and I believe he does -- how generous America is, we accept, every year, close to a million or over a million people every year as permanent residents of the United States. No other country even comes close.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

As far as building walls on the border, the wall is not just about immigrants, it's also about, potentially, terrorists crossing that border, not to mention the drugs that are coming across that border and the human trafficking that's occurring because people know they can get people across the border.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

A child that's born with four strikes against them is going to struggle to succeed unless something breaks that cycle.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There has to be a way to deal with this issue that continues to protect the privacy of Americans, but creates some process by which law enforcement and intelligence agencies could access encrypted information.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm a little old to be going to a rave. Although I have the boots for it!

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I primarily like classical music, particularly Baroque music.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't know, this back and forth is silly, ultimately it's not about me, it's not about Ted, it's not about Donald. It's about what is this country going to look like when my 15-year-old graduates from college.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

In less than five years, 83% of the federal budget will be consumed by Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the interest on the debt, that means we will only have 17% of our budget left for everything else, including the military. That's unacceptable. That's a debt crisis.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I have a record of good judgment on those issues, in 2011, when Moammar Gadhafi was facing his overthrow in Libya, I argued that if that became a protracted conflict it would leave a vacuum that would be filled by jihadists and that's exactly what happened.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There's no other way to describe that -- it's a lie. When you say something that's not true, it's called a lie. That's the definition of it, on this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he's saying it repeatedly, and he knows they're not true.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

There's no other way to describe that -- it's a lie. When you say something that's not true, it's called a lie. That's the definition of it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

On this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he's saying it repeatedly, and he knows they're not true.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The bottom line is, there's been this disturbing pattern the last couple of weeks of Ted Cruz saying things that are not true. Just in the last week, he's lied about my record on marriage. He's lied about my record on Planned Parenthood. Of course he lied about Ben Carson in Iowa. Last night Donald Trump says he's issuing robocalls, doing the same thing to him. And then he also isn't telling the truth about immigration.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I mean, he goes around portraying himself as this purist -- you know, Ted Cruz, the purist on immigration. But I was there two, three years ago, when he was passionately arguing at the committee that we needed to pass immigration reform and needed to bring people out of the shadows.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't think the Senate's going to move on it, and I agree with that decision.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There's a reason for that, and the reason is that the next president should have a chance to fill that void, and not someone who's never going to answer to the electorate again.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Ted Cruz has just been telling lies.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Well, unfortunately it created a distraction that didn't allow us at the end of the campaign there to close with our message because everybody wanted to talk about the fact that I said the same thing a couple times, and it was a mistake in the sense that, I mean what I was trying to avoid, Wolf, was kind of an inner party fight, I don't like Republican-on-Republican violence in these debates.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think Chris was someone who somehow concluded that attacking me would help him in his campaign, obviously it didn't work.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We raised more money after this debate than any debate we've ever had and we're excited about it, and there's a reason they attacked me more than anyone else.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Not just that debate, but every debate before it, I've shown consistently the ability to answer important and difficult questions I think in a very compelling way, we raised more money after this debate than any debate we've ever had and we're excited about it. And there's a reason they attacked me more than anyone else.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We can't afford to lose this election and if I'm the nominee, we won't.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The legislation passed but it had no support.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

If you get a call on Tuesday night saying I dropped out, it isn't true. It's a lie. Don't believe it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

She's disqualified from being commander-in-chief.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

When I'm president, sanctuary cities are going to lose their federal funding.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Now available in paperback.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I'm tired of being divided against each other for political reasons like this President's done, always pitting people against each other. Always. Look at today: He gave a speech at a mosque. Oh, you know, basically implying that America is discriminating against Muslims.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I have never said that. And I have never advocated that, 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.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm not running to beat up on other Republicans, ultimately, I'm running to unify this party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Ultimately, I'm running to unify this party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't think the American people expect us to round up and deport 12 million people.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

But I'm not gonna ram anything down anyone's throat, and we're not going to do it through unconstitutional executive orders like this president now.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I give us the best chance ... to nominate a real conservative who can unite the party, grow the party... and ultimately defeat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, the Democrats admit that I am the one they don't want to run against.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Over the last couple years, I've gotten really interested into electronic dance music. So, Avicii, Calvin Harris, i just like it because the lyrics are clean, so I can listen to it in front of my kids and not worry about it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I just like it because the lyrics are clean, so I can listen to it in front of my kids and not worry about it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I will be our nominee because of what you have done here in this great state.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It’s not enough to just be angry, anger is not a plan. Anger is not solution.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

When I am our nominee, we are going to unify this party and we are going to unify the conservative movement.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Here's how we win: We win by having more delegates than anyone else, and more than half the delegates.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Sure, this is a very unusual year. No one is unbeatable. This election is not going to be decided by one or two states. I think the race will narrow after a couple states.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Donald's the greatest show on Earth. He's very entertaining, but this campaign isn't about that, it's got to be about the serious issues confronting the country, because if we get this election wrong, there may be no turning back on some of these issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

But this whole notion Ted has that he's the only conservative, I think as people learn more about his record, they'll realize what he really is is very calculating, he's always looking to take whatever position it takes to win votes or raise money, and we're not going to beat Hillary Clinton with someone that will say or do anything to get elected.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think people are starting to learn the truth about Ted on immigration and a bunch of other issues that show a history of calculation -- and that's starting to hurt him.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We'd have to have that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This is the lie that Ted's campaign is built on, and Rand touched upon it -- that he's the most conservative guy, and everyone else is a -- you know, everyone else is a RINO, the truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign, you've been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Ted Cruz are not going to round up 12 million people, but we're not going to go around handing out citizenship cards either.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

This is the lie that Ted's campaign is built on.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

The only budget that Ted Cruz has ever voted for was a budget that Rand Paul sponsored that brags about cutting defense spending.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

These kinds of theatrics by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are an entertaining sideshow, but they have nothing to do with defeating Hillary Clinton, i'm going to stay focused on uniting the Republican party so we can defeat Hillary Clinton and turn the page on eight years of liberal failure. We don't have time for these kinds of distractions.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I’m happy to have the endorsement, rubio has the potential to chart a new direction for the party, and perhaps the nation, with his message of restoring the American Dream.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

You only attack somebody if you think they are a threat.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I think it's really great that in America, you want to be commander in chief, you want to be the most important political figure in the world, you've got to start by renting a car and driving to town halls and meeting with 30 and 40 people at a time, i think that's fantastic.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I brought some of those and when I left the foam party, they were white, because the foam washed the dye out of it. It was really bad, so these are like a step up.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

What kind of one-sided deal is this? no wonder why people around the world laugh at Barack Obama.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That is the consequences of having a dictatorship 90 miles from our shores, they continue to send thousands and thousands and thousands of migrants toward the United States.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It's never a mistake to fight against Obamacare, all of us were involved in the effort to stop Obamacare.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Amnesty is the forgiveness of wrongdoing without consequences, there will be consequences for violating the law.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

These are the issues this campaign is about, so that's why I'm talking about them.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Of all the people running, no one understands it better than I do, i understand this issue, the good, the bad, the ugly.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I was here a few days ago repeatedly heckled by this group ... and I told them, 'We're going to enforce our immigration laws,' as the son and grandson of immigrants, I know for a fact that enforcing our immigration laws is not anti-immigrant, it's what sovereign countries do.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

You've seen a huge upsurge now after the deal the President made with the Castro brothers, and it's becoming a real crisis.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We're going to have to reexamine not just the Cuban Adjustment Act and make changes to it based on new realities but also the benefits people are qualifying for.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Don't fall for it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I stood on the stage and watched Marco … rather indignantly, look at Governor Bush and say, ‘someone told you that because we're running for the same office, that criticizing me will get you to that office,’ it appears that the same someone has been whispering in old Marco's ear too.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

Let’s get the facts straight. First of all, I didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

Here's the point, and I like Ted, we're friends. But he campaigns as a consistent conservative, and basically says he's the only consistent conservative on the stage, that is not his record.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The people in New York fought and fought and fought.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

That is not consistent conservatism, that is political calculation.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

He is eligible to be president. That is a total non-issue, it really is.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

These sailors need to be released immediately.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

What we saw was a leader with a record of failure in search of any meaningful positive legacy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It is particularly outrageous when individuals who claim to be fleeing repression in Cuba are welcomed and allowed to ?collect federal assistance based on their plight, only to return often to the very place they claimed to be fleeing.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

When they caught this person, they asked him, 'Why did you do this?' This person did not resist -- this person said, 'I did it because I pledged allegiance to ISIS. I am inspired by ISIS,' to his credit, the police chief of Philadelphia said this person did it because of ISIS.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

When it comes to Ted, he has changed his position on immigration all over the place, i mean, he used to be against birthright citizens -- or he used to be for birthright citizenship; now he says he's against it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I mean, he used to be against birthright citizens -- or he used to be for birthright citizenship; now he says he's against it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I never believed Edward Snowden was a good public servant the way that Ted Cruz once said, that he had done a public service for America. Edward Snowden is a traitor.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The police chief stands up says, 'This was the guy. We arrested him. And he said he did it in the name of ISIS.' And then, (Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney) gets up and says, 'This has nothing to do with Islam and radical Islam,' this is ridiculous. This is absurd.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There was a terrorist attack yesterday, in the city of Philadelphia. A terrorist attack, he walks up to the car and starts firing shots. They arrest him, he tells them, he confesses, 'I did it in the name of ISIS,'.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Chris Christie has done a number of things that are very similar to the Obama agenda, and I just don't think this country can afford to elect a president that will not stand up and undo the damage Barack Obama has done to the country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Our rights come from our creator -- they don't come from the government.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God's plan, to those who much as been given, much is expected. And we will be asked to account for that ... I try to allow that to influence me in everything that I do.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I have been warning throughout this campaign that North Korea is run by a lunatic who has been expanding his nuclear arsenal while President Obama has stood idly by.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

It is easy to talk tough on national security, you can't make the sands glow in the dark if you don't have bombs. You can't attack terrorists if you don't know where they are.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Talk is cheap to say you're going to carpet bomb ISIS, how are you going to do that if you don't have the intelligence to do that?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Being angry by itself is not enough.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

No law in the world would have prevent that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We have Republican candidates who propose that rulers like Assad and Putin should be partners of the United States, and who have voted with Barack Obama and Harry Reid rather than with our men and women in uniform.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

My first day in office I will announce I am a supporter.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Chris Christie's a funny guy but he's never in New Jersey, he's gone half the time, the reason I'm not in Washington right now is really two reasons: Washington's completely broken, and that's why I'm running for president, because these votes they're taking in Washington, they don't count.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

What's happening, unfortunately, I think with some of these folks that you've mentioned, they're growing increasingly desperate and increasingly nasty and that's OK. I'm not running against them, I'm running for president.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I want to be very careful, I'm a member of the (Senate) Intelligence Committee, so obviously I want to be very careful about what I say about information of this kind.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It's not my job to tell you who to vote for, but I am going to tell you who I am going to vote for. And I'm gonna tell you why. I'm going to vote for Marco Rubio, our founding fathers did not give us a commander in chief to fill out March madness basketball brackets or to sample golf courses on the eastern seaboard.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

She's in a tough spot, obviously, because she was the secretary of state for four out of seven disastrous foreign policy years, and the truth is that the threat of ISIS began to emerge in Syria while she was still the secretary of state and of course fully blossomed right after she left, they're all responsible for that's happened here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less.

– Marco Rubio

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First, let's explain to people at home... what the triad is.

– Marco Rubio

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I think it gets easier to address that issue if we deal with some of the other issues first and that's why I've favored the sequential, individual bills, i think if people have real confidence that the law is being enforced, that we're not going to have this problem again, that there's real border security, I think you buy yourself more space and more flexibility in finally dealing with those that are here illegally.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Immigration is not an issue that I read about ... it's an issue I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants, here's what we learned in 2013: The American people don't trust the federal government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control.

– Marco Rubio

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I'm always puzzled by his attack on this issue, ted, you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally. Ted Cruz supported a 500% increase in the number of H-1 visas, the guest workers that are allowed into this country, and Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Here's what we learned in 2013: The American people don't trust the federal government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This President hasn't kept us safe.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This election is about the essence of America, about all of us who feel out of place in our own country.

– Marco Rubio

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A government incredibly out of touch, and millions with traditional values branded bigots and haters.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

This about the greatest country in the world -- and acting like it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

He talks tough on some of these issues. For example, he was going to carpet bomb ISIS. But the only budget he's ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it, he voted against the Defense Authorization Act every year that it came up. And I assume that if he voted against it, he would veto it as president.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That's the bill that funds our troops. Even the Iron Dome for Israel. So I guess my point is each time he's had to choose between strong national defense and some of the isolationist tendencies in American politics, he seems to side with the isolationist, and this is an important issue to have a debate over. It's not personal.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It is the current law. I don't believe any case law is settled law, any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

He voted against the Defense Authorization Act every year that it came up. And I assume that if he voted against it, he would veto it as president.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Insurance companies are willing to be a part of the exchanges, only if the federal government promised them that when they lost money they would get bailed out; bailed out with taxpayer money, we've taken that away. We should not be bailing out private insurance companies who hire great lobbyists.

– Marco Rubio

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Whether it's him or anybody else, everybody running for president on the Republican side wants to repeal Obamacare, i'm the only one running that's actually ever scored a victory against Obamacare.

– Marco Rubio

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State of the Union, sometimes you're only on that list because the FBI wants to talk to you about someone you know, not because you're a suspect.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If the documents do not exist, they can't put together the broader picture of who these people are and who they've been dealing with, metadata alone is not going to solve all the problems, but it is an important piece of a bigger puzzle that allows you to disrupt potential terrorist plots.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Sometimes you're only on that list because the FBI wants to talk to you about someone you know, not because you're a suspect.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Moving forward, this is not going to be the last attempt to attack the homeland.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I mean they didn't even know any of the facts about this and they immediately jumped on it as an opportunity to push their gun control agenda even though no gun laws would have prevented this from occurring, we need terrorist control.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

My sense of it is that these people were really planning a broader attack but I think the evidence is going to continue to show that these were clearly people that had been radicalized, you don't build all these pipe bombs and set up booby traps unless you're planning something.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Criminals will always have access to weapons. That's why it's important that law-abiding citizens have access to protect themselves.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We don't know all of the facts yet but we certainly have learned some facts that are concerning and weighing on our minds in the aftermath of what we see happening in the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Ithink it’s only going to accelerate now, because once these companies can’t getbailed out, many of them are deciding they no longer want to participate in theObamaCare exchange.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

It's the reason why I warned about having Russia in the Middle East, i warned exactly, specifically, this could happen. That there could be an incident with Turkey, a NATO ally. That they could aggressively fly over their territory and be shot down.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If Russia believes that they can respond and retaliate against Turkey because NATO's not going to do anything about it, what they are basically doing is they are making the argument that NATO is no longer viable, that it is a feckless alliance, so it's important for us to be clear that we will respond and defend Turkey if they come under assault from the Russians.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I warned exactly, specifically, this could happen. That there could be an incident with Turkey, a NATO ally. That they could aggressively fly over their territory and be shot down.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

He wanted all the doors that closed for him to open for me, that journey from behind that bar to behind this podium, that's the essence of the American dream.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That journey from behind that bar to behind this podium, that's the essence of the American dream.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We're all good guys, you got a few more weeks to make up your mind. We're going to try and pull you over.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I ’m from Florida. You may not know this, but there are a lot of people in Florida on Medicare and Social Security, one of them happens to be my mother. And I can say this to you right now unequivocally : I am against anything that is bad for my mother.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

One of them happens to be my mother. And I can say this to you right now unequivocally : I am against anything that is bad for my mother.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

That would be like saying we weren't at war with Nazis because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi party, but weren't violent.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

You can have a thousand people come in and 999 of them are just poor people fleeing oppression and violence, but one of them is an ISIS fighter. ... If that's the case, you have a problem.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

He bragged about how his amendment would bring people out of the shadows, he's changed his position. He has a right to change his position.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

He's a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally. If he's changed that position -- and certainly he has a right to change his position on that issue -- but he should be clear about that, on other issues regarding immigration, he's not that much further than I am. He wanted to double the number of green cards. He wanted a 500% increase in the number of H1B visas. So everybody running for president on the Republican side in one way or shape supports some form or fashion the legalization of people that are in this country illegally.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm puzzled and quite frankly surprised by Ted's attacks since Ted's position on immigration is not much different than mine.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I personally am open to that.

– Marco Rubio

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I don't think our positions are dramatically different.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Whether it’s Russians, whether it’s Assad, whether it was Gaddafi before, that’s what exists 90 miles from our shores. We should not be strengthening that government that controls the entire economy. We should not be strengthening them by providing sources of revenue to fund their repression.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

You're disgusting, I mean this is a disgusting video, what you did with children and to the parents of those children. You know, shame on them. I mean what kind of parent allows their kids to go be exposed to the world in a YouTube video using those words?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It will be soon -- these are old documents and they take time to assemble, i have no problem releasing it. We have nothing to withhold here.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would be targeting their safe havens everywhere including in Libya, if we don't wipe out that operational status that they now have in Libya they're going to use it to ramp up more operations in Sinai, more in Egypt and eventually it will cross over the Mediterranean into Europe itself.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It will have to end. It can't be the permanent policy of the United States, i've said that consistently. I don't think we should be signing new people up to it. If you haven't applied by now, it's been three years, almost four, and I don't think, when it comes time to extend it, we should extend it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I only have one debt in the world, which is my mortgage on the home that me and my family live in in Miami.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

What I appreciate about Bernie is he's not trying to shirk from it, it's what he believes in. He's honest about it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't think it works for America, my argument is, you want to live in a country like that -- there's like dozens of countries around the world that are socialist -- move there. We should continue to be America.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't personally have a problem with Bernie because he's being honest about what he believes in. I'd love to have that debate.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I was secured under my personal credit and it was in conjunction with the Republican Party, and every month, I would go through the bills and if there was something on there, I'd pay it to American Express, and if it was the party's, the party paid for it, and the media convoluted all of this and it creates these stories.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The Democrats have the ultimate super PAC ... called the mainstream media for every single day.

– Marco Rubio

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Only America can convene Sunni forces from what I believe needs to be a combined Sunni force of Egyptians, Saudis, Jordanians, Sunnis in Iraq, Sunnis in Syria to confront a radical Sunni movement and defeat them militarily. They will need our help in convening it, but it doesn't involve a full-scale U.S. invasion of Iraq.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

I don't believe that the way I'm going to win is by going after him or anybody else.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

I think this is what's wrong with Washington -- what I call the unholy alliance between the Right and the Left, neither of which seem to be too concerned with the deficit.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The only reason you are doing it now is because we're running for the same position and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, it’s not.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

The Democrats have the greatest super PAC -- it's called the mainstream media.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

The only reason why you're doing it now is because we're running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, i'm not running against Governor Bush, I'm not running against anyone on this stage. I'm running for president.

– Marco RUBIO

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

The Democrats have the ultimate super PACs: they're called the mainstream media.

– Marco RUBIO

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

This is another example of the double standard that exists in this country between the mainstream media and the conservative movement.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

I don't think I've been invited, we'll see if that makes sense. I'm not going to cancel campaign events to do it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I just want to make sure it's the right person, somebody said (television host) Mario Lopez the other day. Maybe they'll bring him on as a guest or something.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

She lied about House Benghazi, i think House Benghazi's just a little bit more insight into her unwillingness oftentimes to speak truth, in this case for political reasons.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Donald Trump don't want kids at a young age exposed to lyrics that somehow glamorize a lifestyle that's art, it's not reality, so one of the issues with the'90s hip hop music is that it had lyrics that were offensive. What it actually was were people who were living in those circumstances expressing what their life was like. In the West Coast case, for example, in South Central L.A. And so it gave insight into the lives that they were living.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

To this point in the campaign, he has not proven an understanding of these issues or the preparation necessary to be the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force in the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Well, she'll be the Democratic nominee, someone who comes from a political dynasty and that, in and of itself, is going to bring fundraising capabilities and so forth.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Not true, not true, you don't think you're in a glass house?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Voting is not the only part of the Senate job, i mean, the most important thing a senator does is constituent service. We're still involved in looking out for Florida's issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I was just there this Tuesday, i got fully briefed and caught up on everything that's happening in the world. I'm fully aware.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Everyone needs to run their own campaign.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If you start paying attention to these polls in October, I mean, you'll go crazy. I've been up, I've been down, it's a very unusual year, and I think part of it is that people are really angry about the direction of our country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

People may think she had a good week.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would say that ultimately the next president of the United States, on their first day in office, must understand the threats that face this country and must have shown good judgment about what to do about those issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We did n’t mislead, the numbers are there and show what we’ve raised.

– Marco Rubio

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Who knows -- that might be the night we seal the nomination.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

As Palestinian terrorists continue to murder and maim Israelis, the Obama administration is spreading malicious falsehoods about the attacks.

– Marco Rubio

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They're handing out mojitos in the middle of my speech, I love it, i promise that has never happened before.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

No, No, No, i drink water.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

OK I'm ready now.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I can tell you that I always find it interesting that the reflexive reaction of the left is to say we need more gun laws, criminals don't follow gun laws. Only law-abiding people follow gun laws. And there is just no evidence that these gun laws would prevent these shootings.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The President has fallen into that. He's in fact strengthened Putin's hands.

– Marco Rubio

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If left with a choice between Russia and nothing, they're going to choose Russia.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I'm not here to bash anyone --- but the time has come to turn the page. The time has come to turn the page and allow a new generation of leadership in this country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be more concerned that she decided to side with her president, that she decided to side with her party and put Israel in danger.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I was outraged because this is a private citizen and individual who participates in the political process, (and) anyone who knows him for two seconds realizes he's not a Nazi sympathizer.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We cannot deal with all three of these problems in one massive piece of legislation, i learned that. We tried it that way.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I personally know, first of all, that there are Americans that are Muslims and that are also very patriotic and they love the United States of America and they don't want to see any Sharia law and they don't want to see anything like that happen in this country, i don't believe anyone should be disqualified from the presidency because of their denomination or because of their faith. I believe in that strongly.

– Marco Rubio

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I don't believe anyone should be disqualified from the presidency because of their denomination or because of their faith. I believe in that strongly.

– Marco Rubio

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But I do believe there are hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of people in this country who are Muslim but love United States of America... they aren't political about their religious views with regards to that the way you would see in some other countries around the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I know many people are disappointed with Scott's announcement and I respect what a difficult decision it must have been. He remains one of the best governors in the country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Every time that we discuss these sorts of things, we're not talking about the family who's out there trying to make it -- they don't know if they're going to make it to Friday before a check bounces because they don't have enough money in their checking account.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This is -- of course -- he's born in the United States. He's a Christian. He's the president of the United States for the next year and a half, and we're going to move on.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Despite the fact that we have the most generous country in the history of the world in allowing people to come here legally, we have people still coming illegally.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

I want to tell you a story about someone that didn't speak English that well. It was my grandfather, my grandfather instilled in me the belief that I was blessed to live in the one society in all of human history where even I, the son of a bartender and a maid, could aspire to have anything, and be anything that I was willing to work hard to achieve. But he taught me that in Spanish, because it was the language he was most comfortable in.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Those are very important years, fourth grade through high school -- they were the years that formed so much of what today I believe and know to be true about the world and about our nation.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We are trying to build a campaign here, we want to be in first place in February, not in August or September. We have a campaign that is designed to achieve that goal.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

When I entered that race, the only people who thought I could win all lived in my home. Four of them were under the age of 10.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If you don't know the answer to these questions, then you are not going to be able to serve as commander and chief, this should be part of the reason why you are running because you understand the threats that the world is facing, you have deep understanding and you understand what to do about it.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

No, I don't, national Security is the most important obligation of the federal government. If you are going to be a presidential candidate, you need to take this seriously. And I think that is important.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It is important to have a detailed understanding of the threats we face as a country, you are commander in chief on day number one and you may have to make national security decisions right away. And it takes time and dedication and a natural curiosity and interest in these issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That is his opinion, i am here in Puerto Rico, I am going to get asked question by Spanish media, I am going to answer in Spanish. I don't want some translator to translate what I said.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

President Obama has hoped that being more open to China would make them a more responsible nation. It has not worked. We can no longer succumb to the illusion that more dialogue with China's current rulers will narrow the gap in values and interests that separates us, our nominee must have a plan to correct U.S.-China relations.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Those are human beings, and ultimately they are people.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

I would like to focus my remarks today on these two dangerous developments with Iran and Cuba, as I believe they represent the convergence of nearly every flawed strategic, moral, and economic notion that has driven President Obama's foreign policy, and as such are emblematic of so many of the crises he has worsened around the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I will undertake a three-part plan to roll back President Obama's deal with Iran and repair the damage done to America's standing in the Middle East.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I will give the Castros a choice: either continue repressing your people and lose the diplomatic relations and benefits provided by President Obama, or carry out meaningful political and human rights reforms and receive increased U.S. trade, investment, and support.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

What other people are doing doesn't necessarily impact our strategy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

You can do that on day one in the first hour of your presidency, in the first week of your presidency, the centrifuges that [Iran has] now are quite frankly ancient.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Absolutely, and I said so today at the [Senate Foreign Relations Committee] hearing.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

The centrifuges that [Iran has] now are quite frankly ancient.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

It's not just absurd, it's offensive.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

This is not just an insult to John McCain, who clearly is a war hero and a great man.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Our next President needs to be someone who brings Americans together -- not someone who continues to divide, our broken immigration system is something that needs to be solved, and comments like this move us further from -- not closer to -- a solution. We need leaders who offer serious solutions to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It is important for the United States to continue being a beacon of freedom for the Cuban people, i intend to work with my colleagues to block the administration’s efforts to pursue diplomatic relations with Cuba and name an ambassador to Havana until substantive progress is made on these important issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

It remains unclear what, if anything, has been achieved … in terms of securing the return of U.S. fugitives being harbored in Cuba, settling outstanding legal claims to U.S. citizens for properties confiscated by the regime, and in obtaining the unequivocal right of our diplomats to travel freely throughout Cuba and meet with any dissidents, and most importantly, securing greater political freedoms for the Cuban people. I intend to oppose theconfirmationof an Ambassador to Cuba until these issues are addressed.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

While I disagree with this decision, we live in a republic and must abide by the law, as we look ahead, it must be a priority of the next president to nominate judges and justices committed to applying the Constitution as written and originally understood.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

As we look ahead, it must be a priority of the next president to nominate judges and justices committed to applying the Constitution as written and originally understood.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

People buy into my agenda, I don't buy into theirs, my stands are not influenced by my contributors, I hope my stands influences my contributors.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

When I run for office, I tell people what I stand for, and when you hear what I stand for, if you want to support me and donate to our campaign -- assuming you're not a really, really bad person or something like that -- we accept that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Apparently your family recently purchased a luxury speedboat. Now, I've seen a photo of this boat, i'm from Minnesota, you guys are from New Hampshire, looked a little bit like a fishing boat to me. The veterans really want to know, why didn't you buy a yacht large enough to land a Black Hawk on it?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Well the thing about the boat is, too, it is a luxury speedboat, but it is cleverly disguised as a fishing boat, but the best answer I got is someone who emailed me or texted me and said, 'Any boat where you have to go to the bathroom off the side of the boat is not a luxury speedboat.'.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I appreciate and respect (Haley's) statement that 'This is South Carolina's statehouse, it is South Carolina's historic moment, and this will be South Carolina's decision,' i have no doubt that given how the people of South Carolina have dealt with this tragedy so far, they will continue to inspire the nation with their courage, compassion and unity.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The latest attack, by The New York Times and others.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I don't believe the minimum wage law works.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

In politics, people throw around the word 'friend' so much it often has little real meaning. This is not one of those times, when I call Jeb Bush my friend, I mean he is someone I like, care for and respect. He and I have worked closely together for many years, on issues big and small. He is a passionate advocate for what he believes, and I welcome him to the race.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

When I call Jeb Bush my friend, I mean he is someone I like, care for and respect. He and I have worked closely together for many years, on issues big and small. He is a passionate advocate for what he believes, and I welcome him to the race.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We simply cannot afford to elect as our next president one of the leading agents of this administration’s foreign policy – a leader from yesterday whose tenure as secretary of state was ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

We have great affection for Nevada, we look forward to coming back many times.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

America safer and better off for having gone to war in Iraq.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

First of all, the world is better off because Saddam Hussein is no longer in charge in Iraq.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

The solution is not to get rid of a program at a time when we know that the risk of homegrown violent extremism is the highest it's ever been.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Governors can certainly read about foreign policy, and take briefings and meet with experts, but there is no way they'll be ready on Day One to manage U.S. foreign policy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The argument the White House uses is if you're not in favor of this deal, you are in favor of war, i would argue that a bad deal almost guarantees war, because Israel is not going to abide by any deal that they believe puts them and their existence in danger.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The criticism of that is that there are a bunch of countries in the Middle East that don't recognize Israel's right to exist, which is true, but none of them are trying to build a nuclear weapon. And none of them have billions of dollars of sanctions, and if we lift those sanctions, we are handing over billions of dollars to the Iranian regime.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I've had leaders of the Northern Triangle in Central America -- Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador -- tell me that DACA was used by trafficking groups in the Northern Triangle to recruit people to send their children here illegally.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

In exchange for all of that, what you would get is the equivalent of a non-immigrant, non-permanent work visa to be in the US.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

The math is unmistakable.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't think the Wall Street Journal or any conservatives have any quarrel with what we've done on the pro-tax is-on the pro-growth side of this debate.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Cuba is a brutal, tyrannical dictatorship 90 miles from the shore of our country.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If you’ve decided that you want to serve this country as its president, that’s what you should be running for. And I find Marco Rubio in a situation where my Senate Finance seat comes up for re-election at the exact same time as the presidency.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

I think that Jeb Bush continues to be a model for people in terms of how you approach public policy. ... But we've reached a moment now, not just in my career but in the history of our country, where I believe that it needs a Republican Party that is new and vibrant, that understands the future, has an agenda for that future, and I feel uniquely qualified to offer that.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The constitutional right to bear arms is constantly in jeopardy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

The most important obligation of the federal government is our national security, and I think that is something that is very difficult to acquire experience or in-depth knowledge (of) when you are governor. You just don't deal with those issues, you can obviously be briefed by experts, you can take some trips abroad, but I think this election has the potential to really be geared towards national security issues. I feel very comfortable in my knowledge and my experience on those issues.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Is it worse than doing what we've done for almost two decades, with Iran moving forward with its nuclear program and without robust inspections? I think the answer will be clear.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Nobody is saying that it should be legal to deny someone service at a restaurant or at a hotel because of their sexual orientation. I think that's a consensus view in America, the flip side is, should a photographer be punished for refusing to do a wedding that their faith teaches them is not one that is valid in the eyes of God?

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That's not the same thing, because here you're talking about the definition of an institution, not the value of a single human being. That's the difference between the civil rights movement and the marriage equality movement.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

For years, the District of Columbia has infringed on its residents’ Second Amendment rights and rendered them vulnerable to criminals who could care less what the gun laws are, this legislation will finally allow D.C.’s law-abiding residents and visitors access to firearms for sporting or lawful defense of themselves and their homes, businesses and families.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

It's one of the things people will look to to see if you're changing your positions when you run for office, i'm proud of my record both here and my time in the state legislature, and I don't anticipate a potential candidacy for anything impacting how I would vote on one issue or another.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I hope these ideas are embraced by everybody running for president, because I think our party needs to be the pro-family, pro-growth party.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

Our generation is going to have to accept that our Medicare and Social Security is going to be different from our parents.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Because of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy, our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Bureaucrats at the VA are not commanding officers. They should never have the authority to order around our returning heroes, as soon as the VA is forced to compete with the private sector providers, it will increase the efficiency, the service and its innovation.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Paying lip service to veterans is always in vogue, but the true measure of public service ... is the willingness to endorse whole reforms.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

We only declare war on nation-states, iSIS wants to be considered a state but it is not a state and I refuse to elevate it to that standing.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago U.S.

If enough people are not vaccinated you put at risk infants that are three months of age or younger that have not been vaccinated, and you put at risk immune-suppressed children that are not able to get those vaccinations, so absolutely, all children in America [should be vaccinated].

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Jeb Bush is going to be a very credible candidate. I think he's going to raise a lot of money, he's got an extraordinary network of donor around the country and I know he'll be a strong candidate if he runs.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

This is a windfall for the Castro regime that will be used to fund its repression against Cubans, as well as its activities against U.S. national interests in Latin America and beyond.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Most Read Articles

Eric Holder was in Paris, and maybe John Kerry should have gone, or somebody else, there's a plethora of people they could have sent. I think in hindsight I hope that they would have done it differently.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago U.S.

It was n’t State Department officials, State Department was n’t [ Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ] Roberta Jacobson or John Kerry, it was National Security Council officials, you sent unqualified people to negotiate with hardened, brutal spies and representatives of tyrants... It was negotiated at a secretive level involving agencies under the complete control of the White House, as a political move …. And that mismatch is apparent in this sort of deal that was made.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

Almost three weeks after your Cuba announcement, there is absolutely no reason why any of these individuals should be in prison or the targets of repression – or for their identities, conditions and whereabouts to remain such closely held secrets.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I think, by and large.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Like many people who have been opining, (Paul) has no idea what he's talking about.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

I chose not to discuss it at the time because I did not want to imperil the safety and well-being of Mr. Gross, who, as I understood it, was either en route or potentially en route within a few hours.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

It's absurd and it's part of a long record of coddling dictators and tyrants.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Latest Headlines

The president’s decision to reward the Castro regime and begin the path toward the normalization of relations with Cuba is inexplicable.

– Marco Rubio

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

It is a lifeline for the Castro regime that will allow them to become more profitable ... and allow them to become a more permanent fixture, the embargo is leverage, these sanctions are leverage.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

This president has proven today that his foreign policy is more than just naive, it is willfully ignorant of the way the world truly works.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

It is willfully ignorant of the way the world truly works.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN 6 years ago Top News

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