Political Quotes

Marco Rubio

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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.

Quotes by year · 2009–20264,269 total · peak 2025 (884)
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Aug 2, 2026

We’re the only country in the world, and President Trump’s the only leader in the world, that can bring the Russian side and the Ukrainian side to begin to talk about how you end it.

state.gov
Aug 2, 2026

The regime has to change. You might not have a regime change, but the regime has to change.

state.gov
Aug 2, 2026

I don’t think the Iranian regime has ever faced a president like President Trump, which is someone that actually takes action.

state.gov
Aug 2, 2026

I think the world has always been complicated and tricky. I think the difference now is if something happens halfway around the world in a place you’ve never heard about before, and it’s really dramatic, you’re going to hear about it…

state.gov
Aug 2, 2026

This is 90 miles from our shores. A failed state 90 miles from our shores that happens to be aligned with adversaries to the United States is a national security threat to our country.

state.gov
Aug 2, 2026

Everything in there is factual. And frankly, I don’t think they can dispute it.

state.gov
Aug 2, 2026

There’s no chance you’re going to get arrested.

vox.com
Aug 1, 2026

For the first time in 15-20 years, the overwhelming majority of the countries in the Western Hemisphere are now led by pro-American leaders and pro-American governments. It’s an extraordinary achievement.

whitehouse.gov
Aug 1, 2026

The deal with Lebanon and Israel is unprecedented… This is the first time the Israelis and the Lebanese government have spoken at the official level in close to 30 years.

whitehouse.gov
Aug 1, 2026

60 countries came to Washington and were part of an effort where we’re shedding light on far-left terror and violence.

whitehouse.gov
Aug 1, 2026

The International Criminal Court is an illegitimate international organization. They’ve made themselves illegitimate because they claim that even if you’re not a member of that court, they can come after you. What that literally means in…

whitehouse.gov
Aug 1, 2026

The United States can certainly injure the court, but there’s no way that we could dismantle the court.

vox.com
Aug 1, 2026

The United States alone cannot dismantle this court.

vox.com
Aug 1, 2026

The Trump administration’s goal is to “dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary,”

vox.com
Aug 1, 2026

Marco Rubio has promised to “dismantle the ICC.”

vox.com
Jul 31, 2026

The Senate shouldn't go on recess until Blanche is confirmed

axios.com
Jul 31, 2026

Communism, according to Rubio, would not be laudable if only we could make it work, because making it work would mean an end of great individual accomplishment and of the striving that brings romance and meaning to our lives.

thefp.com
Jul 31, 2026

The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive toward, without—a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the…

thefp.com
Jul 31, 2026

Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul.

thefp.com
Jul 26, 2026

Washington would use every tool at its disposal to dismantle the ICC 'brick by brick.'

tehrantimes.com
Jul 26, 2026

But I would say on the visit in general, look, China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world.

state.gov
Jul 25, 2026

Washington will never accept that 'international waterways are somehow under the control of other countries.'

focustaiwan.tw
Jul 25, 2026

It [the issue] always comes up in every one of our meetings because we obviously disagree with those actions.

focustaiwan.tw
Jul 24, 2026

Cannot expect to maintain business as usual with other nations when it is thwarting the basic tenets of our democratic hemisphere.

foreignpolicy.com
Jul 24, 2026

We want to see stability and we want to see peace and we want to see prosperity.

state.gov

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