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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Feb 5, 2025

The United States is not walking away from foreign aid. It's not.

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Feb 4, 2025

We urge you to use your fiscal year 2023 budget request for the Defense Department, the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development to send a clear message that the United States has a comprehensive strategy to…

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Feb 4, 2025

We don't have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That's why we give foreign aid.

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Feb 4, 2025

To weaken and even destroy the agency is the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans.

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Feb 4, 2025

So, what he's very generously has offered is the ability of the United States to go in and help with debris removal, help with munitions removal, help with reconstruction, the rebuilding of homes and businesses and things of this nature so…

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Feb 4, 2025

There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do that make sense.

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Feb 4, 2025

This is not about getting rid of foreign aid.

newsweek.com
Feb 4, 2025

It was not meant as a hostile move. It was meant as a very generous move, the offer to rebuild and to be in charge of the rebuilding of a place many parts of which right now, even if people move back, they would have nowhere to live…

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Feb 4, 2025

It was not meant as a hostile move, it was meant as a, I think, a very generous move, the offer to rebuild.

truthout.org
Feb 4, 2025

The billions of dollars that are going to be required for reconstruction are enormous.

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Feb 4, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the removal of the diplomatic security detail from both Pompeo and Hook.

cbsnews.com
Feb 2, 2025

It has to be aligned with American foreign policy. USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest, these are taxpayer dollars.

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Jan 28, 2025

Getting rid of these programs, getting rid of those relationships, cutting things like PEPFAR, which Marco Rubio has stood up for, which Jay Bhattacharya, the nominee for the NIH, has stood up for, which has had broad bipartisan support in…

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Jan 28, 2025

We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.

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Jan 23, 2025

Responsible for terrorist violence … as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe.

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Dec 9, 2024

We are about upward mobility. We're about the true free enterprise system.

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Nov 30, 2024

God has a funny way of reminding us we're human.

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Nov 19, 2024

They allow the Chinese communist party to gain access to all of the private data.

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Nov 3, 2024

Kamala Harris has a bigger problem among men than Donald Trump does among women.

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Nov 3, 2024

If you're so confident about victory, the way that the Harris people say they are, then why would you be out there attacking not Donald Trump, attacking anyone who is thinking about voting for him by labeling them as, if you vote for…

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Nov 3, 2024

I have never seen such a concerted effort like what I have seen, especially in the last two weeks, among multiple media outlets in this country to, in some cases, breathlessly distort and lie about what's being said and to create and…

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Nov 3, 2024

I think you'll see that bear out on Election Day. Ultimately, the bottom line is that what this election is going to be about, when people go vote, they're not – they're going to be voting on three things that are critical to them.

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Sep 28, 2024

I just want them to have more leverage than Putin.

nbcnews.com
Sep 28, 2024

I would be comfortable with a deal that ends these hostilities and that I think is favorable to Ukraine.

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Sep 28, 2024

What we can't have is a world in which Iran has unlimited resources to continue to sponsor terrorism.

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