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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:

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

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From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

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No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

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For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

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When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

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The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

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Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

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We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

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My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

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Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

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We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

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When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

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We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.

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Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

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The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

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I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

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We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

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Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

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I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.

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Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

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I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

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