Quotes from Marco Rubio

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

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

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.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

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.'

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

We 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.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

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.

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

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.

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.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.