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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Jul 26, 2021

If confirmed, I will support the regular U.S. calls on Cuba to return fugitives from justice.

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Jul 26, 2021

If confirmed, I pledge democracy and human rights in Cuba will remain at the core of our Cuba policy.

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Jul 26, 2021

I do not believe that the human rights situation is improving.

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Jul 26, 2021

The United States strongly opposed the special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) following the conflict in Gaza in May 2021.

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Jul 26, 2021

The United States is committed to seeking reforms of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), particularly with respect to the HRC's disproportionate focus on Israel and the HRC's problematic membership.

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Jul 26, 2021

I condemn incitement of violence and anti-Semitism in any form.

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Jul 26, 2021

The situation in Venezuela is a tragedy.

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Jul 26, 2021

I will carry out the administration's aims to support peaceful protesters; to denounce human rights abuses, including violence, detentions, and Internet shutdowns and censorship.

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Jul 26, 2021

I will support Interim President Juan Guaido, the democratically elected National Assembly, and the people of Venezuela to determine their own future through free and fair elections.

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Jul 26, 2021

I have been watching the historic protests in Cuba and the Cuban Government's troubling response very closely.

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Jul 19, 2021

They have to know that our intelligence capabilities are not being weaponized against our own people.

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Jul 19, 2021

It's hard for democracies and open societies to conduct intelligence activities.

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Jul 19, 2021

The independence of that office is critical for that sort of trust.

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Jul 19, 2021

I agree. I'm going to scream at Mark Warner about it tonight. I agree 100 percent, you know.

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Jun 17, 2021

The old Marxism, the old Marxism used economics to gain control. The new Marxism, the new Marxism uses identity politics. And the result is something that looks nothing like America. There's no reason to believe that this new Marxism will…

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Jun 9, 2021

I have repeatedly written and notified Thermo Fisher Scientific that their technology is being used by Chinese law enforcement to build a DNA database of Uyghurs.

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Jun 9, 2021

The crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party are too numerous to catalog here

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Jun 9, 2021

It should actually be a national day of mourning.

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Jun 9, 2021

There are more than one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims detained in camps and forced into labor.

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Jun 8, 2021

I am incredibly concerned about the Biden Administration's decision to upend decades of bipartisan agreement by failing to include the Hyde Amendment in the proposed budget.

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Jun 3, 2021

Enhanced unemployment benefits are creating an incentive for people not to return to work.

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May 25, 2021

Why did you dismiss the lab leak theory as credible?

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May 25, 2021

I think those people deserve an apology, at a minimum.

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May 25, 2021

I take all those facts together, right?

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May 25, 2021

We have still not seen and China has not produced any evidence of the host animal that transmitted COVID-19 to a human.

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