Marco Rubio Quotes

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

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.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

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

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

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

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

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

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.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

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.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

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.

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

I'm not going to change who I am. I'm not going to change why I'm running... I'm running for president [in 2016], and I'm running because we can't afford another four years like the last eight years.

I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.