01c. 1971 ADLeadership 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
02c. 1971 ADWe live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADWe've 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 you're doing.'Marco Rubio / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADOne 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADWe 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADSupporting 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADLet's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADAmnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.'Marco Rubio / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADI don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADAnd 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADThe 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADMy 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADMy 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 didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADWe don't 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADWe 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.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADAmericans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
18c. 1971 ADWe need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADThe problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADWe focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADYou cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADWe have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADIt's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADThe loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.Marco Rubio / quote ↗
