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Marco Rubio is an American politician and lawyer who currently serves as a United States Senator from Florida. Known for his role in national debates on immigration and foreign policy, he has been a prominent figure in the Republican Party. He has also run for President and is recognized for his advocacy on issues related to national security and economic growth. Here are 148 of his quotes:

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

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Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

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Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

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But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

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Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

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You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

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If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

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Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.

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And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

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I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

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That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

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But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

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You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

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We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

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A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

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We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

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Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

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I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

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Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

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Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

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And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

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Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

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