Political Quotes

Marco Rubio

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

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Jan 10, 2026

Understand they are not generating any revenue from their oil right now.

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Jan 4, 2026

What we do have an expectation is that – that it move in that direction.

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Jan 4, 2026

We arrested a narcotrafficker who's now going to stand trial in the United States for the crimes he's committed against our people for 15 years.

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Jan 4, 2026

These things take time. There's a process.

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Jan 4, 2026

That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time?

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Jan 4, 2026

We want to see all of that happen. We insist on seeing that happen.

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Jan 4, 2026

We are going to judge everything by what they do, and we're going to see what they do.

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Jan 4, 2026

In the 21st Century, under the Trump administration… we are not going to have a country like Venezuela in our own hemisphere.

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Jan 4, 2026

That's just not going to exist.

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Jan 4, 2026

The people don't benefit from it.

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Jan 4, 2026

We are not going to have a country like Venezuela in our own hemisphere in the sphere of control and the crossroads for Hezbollah, for Iran and for every other malign influence in the country.

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Jan 4, 2026

Their oil industry is completely destroyed. It's destroyed.

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Jan 4, 2026

We think it's in our national interest, and frankly, in the interest of people of Venezuela.

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Jan 4, 2026

We are going to judge whoever we're interacting with moving forward by whether or not those conditions are met.

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Jan 4, 2026

We will seize it. That remains in place, and that's a tremendous amount of leverage that will continue to be in place until we see changes.

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Jan 4, 2026

We are addressing the factors that are a threat to the national interest of the United States.

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Jan 4, 2026

We have been very clear from the beginning, because I still think that a lot of people analyze everything that happens in foreign policy through the lens of what happened from 2001 through 2015 or '16.

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Jan 4, 2026

This is one of the most, you know, daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time.

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Jan 4, 2026

He was a convicted – he was a indicted drug trafficker.

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Jan 4, 2026

I do think this is one of the most, you know, daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time.

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Jan 4, 2026

Tremendous credit to the U.S. military personnel who did it.

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Jan 4, 2026

What the president has said, obviously, is, you know, and I think what he's pointing to is that this obsession people have about boots and this or that, he – he does not feel like he is going to publicly, you know, rule out options that…

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Jan 4, 2026

This is not the Middle East. And our mission here is very different.

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Jan 4, 2026

It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country.

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