Quote

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

Marco Rubio

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marco Rubio
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 28
Lawyer
Politician
United States Senator
Miami
Florida
Marco Antonio Rubio
Silence
American
Cannot
Disappointments
Dream
Inaction
Give
Fears
Giving
Disappointment
Allow
Lead

More quotes by Marco Rubio

Image
There is nothing that we are allowed to do under USA Freedom Act that we could not do before.
Marco Rubio
Image
The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really is an illness that we are seeing arrive from abroad. So it is a threat to public health, and it is the federal government's job to cooperate in this.
Marco Rubio
Image
The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.
Marco Rubio
Image
We have also seen an economic crisis that is very serious within Venezuela, we are seeing cutbacks, I believe even more are coming in terms of electricity. Government employees no longer work on Fridays, and that has not been enough.
Marco Rubio
Image
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
Image
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.
Marco Rubio
Image
I'm simply asking that people who arrive from Cuba receive the same treatment as any other immigrant who comes from another country. The only difference, obviously, is that the Cuban Adjustment Act will remain in effect, that a Cuban who arrives today from Cuba may remain in the U.S.
Marco Rubio
Image
For over 200 years this has been a special country. A unique place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. But now millions of Americans feel like they're being left behind. Insecure in their future and unsafe in the face of terrorism.
Marco Rubio
Image
From my perspective, what I'm really focused on, is making sure that, for the broadest number of Americans possible, limited government and free enterprise, the principles that have truly helped build our country into an exceptional one, is one that is being sold to and appeals to the broadest number of Americans.
Marco Rubio
Image
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
Image
[Donald Trump twitts] Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night. This is true. The problem is he's chalker and once a chalker, always a choker, I guess that's what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.
Marco Rubio
Image
It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there, through the Russian military.
Marco Rubio
Image
The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.
Marco Rubio
Image
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.
Marco Rubio
Image
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
Image
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.
Marco Rubio
Image
I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.
Marco Rubio
Image
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
Image
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't 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.
Marco Rubio
Image
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