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… I want to win a Nobel Peace prize. – Marco Rubio
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform. – Marco Rubio
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class. – Marco Rubio
I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists. – Marco Rubio
While Ebola’s deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security. – Marco Rubio
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. – Marco Rubio
This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn’t bestowed on us from Washington. It comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business. – Marco Rubio
Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth. – Marco Rubio
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America’s decline. – Marco Rubio
There has never been a moment when faith hasn’t been an important part of my life. There have been moments when I’ve been more alive in my faith than others. There have been times when I’ve been more involved in my faith, dedicating more to it, and giving it more importance. – Marco Rubio
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent’s sacrifices, and to the United States of America. – Marco Rubio
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That’s how big it’s gotten. – Marco Rubio
My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life. – Marco Rubio
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. – Marco Rubio
We can’t stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can’t stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being. – Marco Rubio
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. – Marco Rubio
And I think for some – not all – but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans. – Marco Rubio
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. – Marco Rubio
My question becomes, ‘If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.’ – Marco Rubio
There’s a great documentary on Tupac called ‘Resurrection’ about the last few years of Tupac’s life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on. – Marco Rubio
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. – Marco Rubio
It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party. – Marco Rubio
