The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it. – Marco Rubio
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
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. – Marco Rubio
If my house was on fire, I can’t compromise about which part of the house I’m going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not. – Marco Rubio
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. – Marco Rubio
We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses. – Marco Rubio
No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn’t appropriate. – Marco Rubio
If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life. – Marco Rubio
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. – Marco Rubio
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children’s education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents. – Marco Rubio
The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote – happen to be working class people who are desperate to not only achieve the American dream but leave their kids better off than themselves. – Marco Rubio
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
Obamacare’s a disaster. But the answer is not to simply return to the way things were before. The answer is to repeal and replace Obamacare with modern, market-centered reforms. – Marco Rubio
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
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. – Marco Rubio
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
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more. – Marco Rubio
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
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. – Marco Rubio
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. – Marco Rubio
There’s no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the ‘Contract with America’ was an opportunity to implement some things – like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam. – Marco Rubio
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. – Marco Rubio
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. – Marco Rubio
