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 · 2009–20264,055 total · peak 2025 (881)
2009: 1 quote2010: 8 quotes2011: 184 quotes2012: 114 quotes2013: 225 quotes2014: 202 quotes2015: 301 quotes2016: 412 quotes2017: 402 quotes2018: 235 quotes2019: 43 quotes2020: 24 quotes2021: 124 quotes2022: 176 quotes2023: 135 quotes2024: 59 quotes2025: 881 quotes2026: 529 quotes
Apr 3, 2026

I think Cuba is in need of two things: economic reforms and political reform. You cannot fix their economy if you don't change their system of government.

cbsnews.com
Apr 3, 2026

You cannot fix their economy if you don't change the system of government.

cbsnews.com
Apr 3, 2026

I mean Cuba has an economy that doesn't work and a political and governmental system that can't fix it.

cbsnews.com
Apr 3, 2026

We would love to see the regime there change.

cbsnews.com
Apr 3, 2026

The United States stands with Panama against any retaliatory actions against its sovereignty and will always support our partners in the face of bullying.

abcnews.com
Apr 3, 2026

China’s decision to detain or otherwise impede Panama-flagged vessels engaged in lawful trade destabilizes supply chains, raises costs, and erodes confidence in the global trading system.

abcnews.com
Apr 3, 2026

Secretary Rubio’s statement highlights the disruptive effects of the government of China’s actions against Panama-flagged vessels.

apnews.com
Mar 31, 2026

We have countries like Spain, a NATO member that we are pledged to defend, denying us the use of their airspace and bragging about it, denying us the use of our – of their bases.

npr.org
Mar 31, 2026

They are religious zealots who can never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon because they have an apocalyptic vision of the future.

apnews.com
Mar 8, 2026

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them, before they launched those attacks, we would suffer…

usatoday.com
Mar 7, 2026

You will see a lot of her. She'll be very involved with each of you at a personal level.

usatoday.com
Mar 7, 2026

I'm personally very excited to be part of this with each of you today. It's a top priority for us.

usatoday.com
Mar 7, 2026

He knew you'd understand. He's very excited about this initiative.

usatoday.com
Feb 17, 2026

Especially as long as you’re the prime minister and the leader of this country, it’s in our national interest that Hungary be successful.

theguardian.com
Feb 17, 2026

If you face financial struggles, if you face things that are impediments to growth, if you face things that threaten the stability of your country, I know that President Trump will be very interested … to finding ways to provide assistance…

theguardian.com
Jan 10, 2026

Elections in Venezuela are premature at this point.

nbcnews.com
Jan 10, 2026

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the opposition is no longer present inside of Venezuela.

nbcnews.com
Jan 10, 2026

If I lived in Havana and I were in the government, I’d be concerned, at least a little bit.

nbcnews.com
Jan 10, 2026

Don’t play games while this president’s in office because it’s not gonna turn out well

nbcnews.com
Jan 10, 2026

We don't want [Venezuela] descending into chaos.

abcnews.go.com
Jan 10, 2026

They understand that the only way they can move oil and generate revenue and not have economic collapse is if they cooperate and work with the United States.

abcnews.go.com
Jan 10, 2026

There has to be a little realism here.

cnn.com
Jan 10, 2026

We want drug trafficking to stop. We want no more gang members to come our way.

cnn.com
Jan 10, 2026

These ships, if they weren’t in the Caribbean, they’d be somewhere else conducting activity.

cnn.com
Jan 10, 2026

This is tremendous leverage. We are exercising it in a positive way.

cnn.com

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