Quotes by Marco Rubio

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

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

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. Its a sentiment.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

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

Weve never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, We hate you. We envy you because of how well youre doing.

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.

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.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, Dont go in that door! because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

Lets stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.

I dont really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

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

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, I didnt always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed. My parents always provided that.

We dont need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.