We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything, where you’re not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity.
Marco Rubio
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
There were some talks going on in Qatar today, so we'll see if we can make progress.
We’re going to wind up with a system that’s more efficient and even better than the previous system, and in some ways may prove to be even more beneficial than the previous system was to people from India that seek to enter the United…
What's happening there is unlawful, it's illegal, it's unsustainable for the world, it's unacceptable.
The straits have to be open. They're going to be open one way or the other, so they need to be open.
And the idea that somehow this president, given everything he's already proven he's willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions is…
His commitment to that principle that they’ll never have a nuclear weapon shouldn’t be questioned by anybody.
Either we will have a good deal or we will deal with this issue in another way, and we prefer to have a good deal.
I’m sure that there are people that have made comments online and other places, because every country in the world has stupid people.
We’re in a period of transition, and like any period of transition there’s going to be some bumps on that road.
It has to be a process that’s adjusted in every era to the realities of the modern times in which you live, and we are, and it’s long overdue.
The changes that are happening now or the modernization of our migration system into the United States is not focused – it’s not India-specific; it is global.
Everything that you do as a country needs to be in your national interest, and that includes your immigration policy.
What I want to leave clear is that the changes, while they may be having a disproportionate impact on a place like India that provides so many high-skilled workers to the U.S. economy, it is not a system that is targeted at India.
[He] emphasised that the United States will not let Iran hold the global energy market hostage and affirmed that US energy products have the potential to diversify India's energy supply.





