Rubio's Quotes

#1. Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win.

Conan O'Brien

#2. The people in Florida think that Marco Rubio's literally defrauded them because you look at what he does. He never goes and votes. He's never over there.

Donald Trump

#3. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'

Jimmy Fallon

#4. It's not enough to keep winning seconds and thirds. At some point, Ted Cruz has actually won on. [Marco] Rubio's got to actually win a state.

Joy-Ann Reid

#5. It's not something where you can say, one time you said this and now you said this. That doesn't peel off any of his people. The only way that you can do it is by out alphaing [Doanld] Trump, and I think that's what Marco Rubio's attempting to do.

Bernie Sanders

#6. Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.

Ted Cruz

#7. My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

Marco Rubio

#8. 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

#9. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.

Marco Rubio

#10. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"

Hugh Hewitt

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

Marco Rubio

#12. There's never going to be a time where the Republican Party rallies around and says you have to get out or anyone has to get out for purposes of rallying around Donald Trump.

Marco Rubio

#13. The former secretary of State is the nominee. She is also the Willie Sutton of classified data. And there is going to be a long-term effort of Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, to paint her into the corner.

Hugh Hewitt

#14. Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

Marco Rubio

#15. This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.

Marco Rubio

#16. I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.

Marco Rubio

#17. I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.

Marco Rubio

#18. Here's the bigger problem with all this, we're not interrogating anybody right now. Guantanamo's being emptied by this president. We should be putting people into Guantanamo, not emptying it out, and we shouldn't be releasing these killers who are rejoining the battlefield against the United States.

Marco Rubio

#19. I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.

Marco Rubio

#20. I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.

Marco Rubio

#21. Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Marco Rubio

#22. Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Marco Rubio

#23. I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president ...

Marco Rubio

#24. The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Marco Rubio

#25. The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

Marco Rubio

#26. Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Marco Rubio

#27. The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

Marco Rubio

#28. When his [Donald Trump] projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.

Marco Rubio

#29. The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

Marco Rubio

#30. I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.

Marco Rubio

#31. What's important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS. This is the most sophisticated terror group that has ever threatened the world or the United States of America.

Marco Rubio

#32. Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

Marco Rubio

#33. People are really angry at Washington. And they have a right to be. It's why I ran in 2010, by the way.

Marco Rubio

#34. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Marco Rubio

#35. How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Marco Rubio

#36. Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.

Jeb Bush

#37. Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.

Mark McKinnon

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

Marco Rubio

#39. What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Marco Rubio

#40. Imagine if we didn't have a President traveling the world bad mouthing America ... that's the UN's job.

Marco Rubio

#41. The media coverage for Donald Trump has been almost cheerleading. I'm convinced it's because many in the press want him to be the nominee.

Marco Rubio

#42. Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in order to be the nominee. And if you don't have those number of delegates, then there's a process in place.Here is what would be a calamity, for Donald Trump to become our nominee.

Marco Rubio

#43. [Marco] Rubio, I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. I've never seen - he's drinking water, water, water, I never saw anything like this with him and the water.

Donald Trump

#44. There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

Marco Rubio

#45. Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

Marco Rubio

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

Marco Rubio

#47. Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.

Marco Rubio

#48. The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio.Who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

Donald Trump

#49. First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

Marco Rubio

#50. Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

Marco Rubio

#51. I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

Marco Rubio

#52. His [Donald trump] views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don't think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly what he's trying to do. So, these are the kinds of things that I think in detail you need to begin to understand.

Marco Rubio

#53. You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#54. Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

Marco Rubio

#55. It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.

Marco Rubio

#56. I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.

Marco Rubio

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

Marco Rubio

#58. The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

Marco Rubio

#59. There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.

Marco Rubio

#60. It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Marco Rubio

#61. Let's be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It's not about Donald Trump, he's an entertaining guys, he's the greatest show on Earth.

Marco Rubio

#62. I think the way for [Marco] Rubio to say to [Donald] Trump supporters, hey, essentially he's conned you. He's a con man. That's what they do. You pour gold people.My goodness, that's not the way to bring them in.

Bernie Sanders

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

Marco Rubio

#64. Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

Donald Trump

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

Marco Rubio

#66. Donald Trump pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

Marco Rubio

#67. There's tremendous crime and illegal immigration is just incredible. As far as Rubio, he's very weak on immigration, you know, I have great relations with Mexico and I love the Mexican people, and the spirit of the Mexican people. These are people just pouring across the border.

Donald Trump

#68. There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for President, but they didn't. I think Mitt Romney would be a fine President, and he'd be way better than the guy who's there right now.

Marco Rubio

#69. Emboldened by the progress the Republican National Committee has made to ensure we are effectively engaging the Hispanic community year-round. It's important our party listens to voters' concerns and shares our proven principles, offering real solutions to the issues facing all communities.

Marco Rubio

#70. Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

Marco Rubio

#71. If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

Marco Rubio

#72. More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them.

Marco Rubio

#73. All of these things we're talking about now, it will take time to sink in. But when voters begin to realize what we're really up against here, and what he's trying to do, I think you're going to see a sea shift here pretty quickly.

Marco Rubio

#74. The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

Marco Rubio

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

Marco Rubio

#76. What I'm not - I can't control other people's campaigns. If they decide that's what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.

Marco Rubio

#77. It's easy to stand up and say I will destroy ISIS; I will make the sands in the Middle East glow in the dark. Well, that's fine, but you have to have something to do that with.

Marco Rubio

#78. I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to have some specificity about what you're going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn't been a huge factor.

Marco Rubio

#79. Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

Marco Rubio

#80. Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.

Marco Rubio

#81. I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what's happening in our climate,

Marco Rubio

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

Marco Rubio

#83. There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

Marco Rubio

#84. We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

Marco Rubio

#85. Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe the climate is changing because there's never been a moment where the climate is not changing.

Marco Rubio

#86. 'm not going to impugn anyone's integrity. I'm not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I'm not going to go personal with them.

Ted Cruz

#87. My preference is that we beat him [Donald Trump] outright in the primary process. And I believe that's exactly what's going to happen here in the next few weeks, especially as we move to winner-take-all states. The terrain begins to change.

Marco Rubio

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

Marco Rubio

#89. God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

Marco Rubio

#90. Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

Marco Rubio

#91. Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.

Marco Rubio

#92. It's important to be qualified, but if election 2016 is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton's gonna be the next president, because she's been in office and in government longer than anybody else.

Marco Rubio

#93. People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

Marco Rubio

#94. This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.

Marco Rubio

#95. We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

Marco Rubio

#96. If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.

Marco Rubio

#97. It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.

Marco Rubio

#98. You asked Marco Rubio if it was too little too late. I think there's a little bit of too much too late, which is, he is just getting down in the muck with Donald Trump. And when you get down in the muck, you get up with muck on you.

Bernie Sanders

#99. We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.

Marco Rubio

#100. Around the world, America's influence has declined while president Barack Obama has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

Marco Rubio