Marco Rubio

Today’s action taken by the State Department further demonstrates that the Trump Administration continues to deliver on its promises to the American people to dismantle cartels and narcoterrorist networks in our region, ensuring the safety…

The U.S. will never stop fighting against the violent narcoterrorists who flood our nation with deadly drugs.

We'll be announcing the designation of seven former members of the government here, officials for accepting bribes and for betraying their most essential duties.

They're not ordinary. These are violent, bloodthirsty terrorist organizations. And we have to make sure that we continue to pursue them.

Los Tiguerones is yet another Ecuadorian gang helping Mexican cartels move and export illicit drugs to fund terrorism and criminal activity including attacks against civilians, law enforcement, and journalists.

There are territories, vast territories in Mexico that are not governed by the state.

We are talking about terrorists who, in many cases, possess weapons and equipment resembling the national armies of certain countries.

Well again, it depends, and we still blow up ships.

I'm glad that we have leaders in this region that are serious about going after these groups, because if we didn't, we would have failed country after failed country.

It's like a cancer that continues to grow until you don't literally have a state anymore.

If you don't confront these groups, they will eat these countries alive.

We're not going to do what the UK did today regards to the West Bank but I don't have any comment on it.

The US doesn't want to see anything destabilizing going on right now on the West Bank.

We have a lot of common interests with them, both taking on regional transnational criminal terrorism and also economic engagements.

The U.S. has a very strong defensive military relationship with Saudi Arabia, and we’re watching those events very closely.

We don’t want to see anything destabilizing going on right now in the West Bank with so much going on in the region.

These fields are going to be productive and they’re going to generate royalties and revenues for the Venezuelan people.

I think they’re much better off partnering with the United States. They will benefit greatly from it.

I think it’s part of a trend that you’re seeing in the Western Hemisphere of alignment with the U.S. and U.S. interests.

So this is an important trip, obviously. We’re going to go visit three countries strongly aligned with the United States.

The most important role of any government in any part of the world, it’s the security of its people.

Without security it’s impossible to operate as a country and as a society.

The Houthis in many ways are agents and proxies of the Iranians. I think behind some of this is clearly the Iranian hand.

Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships. And for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers. And I think you'll see that again today.

We are involved in this endeavor across the board to try to reverse those mistakes.