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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Mar 16, 2025

What we can't ignore... is because the Iranians have supported the Houthis.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

This is an effort to deny them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

We are not going to have these people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

That cannot and will not continue.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

We are going to set a new status quo. And then we can negotiate something, if they want to, that is fair for both sides.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

What we can't ignore and the reason why the president mentioned Iran is because the Iranians have supported the Houthis.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

This is an effort to take away their ability to control global shipping in that part of the world. That's just not going to happen anymore.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

We're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping.

cbsnews.com
Mar 16, 2025

Nationless corporations … helping the Chinese Communist Party cover up genocide and slave labor.

vox.com
Mar 15, 2025

We don't want terrorists in America.

cbsnews.com
Mar 15, 2025

If you tell us, when you apply for a visa, 'I'm coming to the U.S. to participate in pro-Hamas events,' that runs counter to the foreign policy interest of the United States of America.

cbsnews.com
Mar 15, 2025

These guys take over entire buildings, they vandalize colleges.

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Mar 15, 2025

We're going to keep doing it.

cbsnews.com
Mar 15, 2025

The administration has permanently ended 83% of the programs that had been run by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

usatoday.com
Mar 15, 2025

This strike in Yemen is about their ability, the ability of the Houthis to strike global shipping and attack the U.S. Navy.

cbsnews.com
Mar 15, 2025

We're not going to have these guys, these people with weapons able to tell us where our ships can go.

cbsnews.com
Mar 15, 2025

We have sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador.

abcnews.go.com
Mar 15, 2025

President @nayibbukele is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he’s also a great friend of the U.S.

foxnews.com
Mar 14, 2025

This is not about free speech. This is about people that don’t have a right to be in the United States to begin with.

truthout.org
Mar 13, 2025

You can’t just say you want peace. You have to do peace — and that’s true for both sides in any conflict.

nbcnews.com
Mar 13, 2025

I’ve never heard President Trump say that Russia has a right to take all of Ukraine and do whatever they want there.

nbcnews.com
Mar 13, 2025

There’s a disagreement between the President’s position and the position of the Canadian government.

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Mar 13, 2025

The United States is resetting its trade relations globally to a level of equilibrium, to a level of reciprocity.

nbcnews.com
Mar 13, 2025

This is about people that don’t have a right to be in the United States to begin with.

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