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 · 2009–20264,269 total · peak 2025 (884)
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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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Jan 4, 2026

What you're seeing right now is an oil quarantine that allows us to exert tremendous leverage over what happens next.

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Jan 4, 2026

The president always retains optionality on anything and on all these matters.

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Jan 4, 2026

We continue with that quarantine, and we expect to see that there will be changes, not just in the way the oil industry is run for the benefit of the people.

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Jan 4, 2026

The key to what that regime relies on and – is their economy fueled by oil.

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Dec 27, 2025

The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.

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Dec 27, 2025

For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose.

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Nov 30, 2025

Not just about the terms that ends fighting, it's about also the terms that set up Ukraine for long-term prosperity.

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Nov 30, 2025

We don't just want to end the war, we also want to help Ukraine be safe forever, so never again will they face another invasion, and equally importantly, we want them to enter an age of true prosperity.

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Nov 30, 2025

As I told you earlier this morning, our goal here is to end the war, but it's more than just to end the war.

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Nov 30, 2025

Much work remains, but today was, again, a very productive and useful session where I think additional progress was made.

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Nov 30, 2025

This is delicate, it's complicated, there are a lot of moving parts

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Nov 30, 2025

Securing an end to the war that leaves Ukraine sovereign and independent and with an opportunity at real prosperity

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