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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May 20, 2025

You have this acute, immediate challenge of food and aid not reaching people, and you have existing distribution systems that could get them there.

cnn.com
May 20, 2025

Ultimately the answer here is for this [war] to end, hopefully with the elimination of Hamas, because the people of Gaza deserve a more prosperous, peaceful future, which they will never have as long as Hamas exists.

cbsnews.com
May 20, 2025

I understand your point that it's not in sufficient amounts. But we were pleased to see that decision was made.

cbsnews.com
May 20, 2025

Believes that right now, you start threatening sanctions, the Russians will stop talking, and there’s value in us being able to talk and drive them to get to the table.

nbcnews.com
May 20, 2025

Oh, you have nothing to worry about.

foxnews.com
May 20, 2025

We believe that an acceptable deal with Iran is one in which they cannot enrich, because if they can enrich, they can weaponize.

foxnews.com
May 19, 2025

Adverse foreign policy consequences.

cbsnews.com
May 19, 2025

No judge in the judicial branch can tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy.

cbsnews.com
May 18, 2025

The end goal here is simple. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.

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May 18, 2025

I think people should be celebrating it, and I think people should be supporting it.

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May 18, 2025

The president wants to do it. He wants to do it as soon as – as feasible.

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May 18, 2025

If, in fact, as many claim, they are in favor – I think there's evidence, absolutely, that people have been murdered, that people have been forcibly removed from their properties.

cbsnews.com
May 18, 2025

The president's preference is to achieve that through a peaceful negotiation.

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May 18, 2025

If they did that, this conflict would end.

cbsnews.com
May 18, 2025

I would determine that these people are having their properties taken from them.

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May 18, 2025

Ultimately, one of the things that could help break this logjam, perhaps the only thing that can, is a direct – direct conversation between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.

cbsnews.com
May 18, 2025

If Hamas surrenders and gives up their weapons and demilitarizes and releases all the hostages, this conflict would end.

cbsnews.com
May 18, 2025

We expand the destruction of Hamas, the ending of Hamas.

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May 18, 2025

If those papers have ideas on them that are realistic and rational, then I think we know we've made progress.

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May 18, 2025

Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.

cbsnews.com
May 18, 2025

We have a right to take away visas and indicated the practice could continue.

cbsnews.com
May 17, 2025

We're not going to do anything to undermine Israel and its security but by the same token, if there is a possibility here to find a way forward that frees more hostages, including those who are alive but also the bodies to their relatives…

cbsnews.com
May 17, 2025

There's no doubt in our mind... that this is a group that the regime in Venezuela uses...

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May 17, 2025

The FBI agrees that not only is Tren de Aragua exported by the Venezuelan regime...

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