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.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
The regime has to change. You might not have a regime change, but the regime has to change.
I don’t think the Iranian regime has ever faced a president like President Trump, which is someone that actually takes action.
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…
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.
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.
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.
60 countries came to Washington and were part of an effort where we’re shedding light on far-left terror and violence.
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…
The United States can certainly injure the court, but there’s no way that we could dismantle the court.
The Trump administration’s goal is to “dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary,”
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.
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…
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.
Washington would use every tool at its disposal to dismantle the ICC 'brick by brick.'
But I would say on the visit in general, look, China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world.
Washington will never accept that 'international waterways are somehow under the control of other countries.'
It [the issue] always comes up in every one of our meetings because we obviously disagree with those actions.
Cannot expect to maintain business as usual with other nations when it is thwarting the basic tenets of our democratic hemisphere.
We want to see stability and we want to see peace and we want to see prosperity.





