Political Quotes

Marco Rubio

The Public Record

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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Jul 20, 2026

The Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism.

foreignpolicy.com
Jul 20, 2026

We will continue targeting Iran while it threatens international shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, but we remain open to a diplomatic solution.

abc.net.au
Jul 20, 2026

The only reason why the U.S. is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping.

washingtonexaminer.com
Jul 20, 2026

We continue on a daily basis very successfully to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships.

washingtonexaminer.com
Jul 20, 2026

I commended the courage of the Government of Lebanon, under President Aoun's leadership, for their determined effort to reclaim Lebanon's sovereignty.

cbsnews.com
Jul 19, 2026

The I.C.C. threatens every aspect of our political and legal system.

salon.com
Jul 18, 2026

But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary – well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism.

foxnews.com
Jul 18, 2026

A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil.

foxnews.com
Jul 17, 2026

Cuba poses a national security threat to the United States.

foreignpolicy.com
Jul 17, 2026

Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy.

thestar.com
Jul 17, 2026

It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice liberation — an overwhelming need to tear down, to wreck, what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have…

talkingpointsmemo.com
Jul 17, 2026

They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist, communist, anarchist or Marxist.

talkingpointsmemo.com
Jul 17, 2026

We can and we must identify and map this threat and rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat it.

talkingpointsmemo.com
Jul 17, 2026

We could be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe.

theguardian.com
Jul 17, 2026

For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot, a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.

thestar.com
Jul 17, 2026

It is time for the people of the civilized world to defend ourselves, to stand united against this encroaching darkness, and fight – fight for what is ours.

state.gov
Jul 17, 2026

The most essential duty of the state – the first responsibility, frankly, of any government of any kind – is the protection of its people, is the protection of its country.

state.gov
Jul 17, 2026

Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other’s attacks, to funnel propaganda and training, materials, and target information through shared encrypted channels — moving…

whitehouse.gov
Jul 17, 2026

Today, we face a new wave of this old evil. Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades… Americans have seen what those numbers mean.

whitehouse.gov
Jul 17, 2026

Our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream.

whitehouse.gov
Jul 17, 2026

We strongly urge the Department to return its focus to a serious mission set that is definitionally apolitical, data-driven, and rooted in reality.

bbc.co.uk
Jul 17, 2026

So many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression, so long as they served a left-wing cause.

npr.org
Jul 16, 2026

Let there be no confusion about why: President Lula and his government have not negotiated with the US in good faith.

theguardian.com
Jul 15, 2026

The ICC is backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S.

theintercept.com

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