Quotes by Marco Rubio

About Marco Rubio:

Marco Antonio Rubio is the junior United States Senator from Florida, serving since January 2011, and a candidate for President of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

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If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.

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Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.

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I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.

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

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

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In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.

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We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

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It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

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We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They're going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the w...

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The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is.....

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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.

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The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community.

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As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

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I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

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When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

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

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

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Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

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We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different...

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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.'

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Author Bio

  • NameMarco Rubio
  • Descriptionpolitician from Florida, United States
  • BornMay 28, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer