Quotes from Marco Rubio

I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

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.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

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

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.

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

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

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

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

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

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

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

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.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.