Marco Rubio Quotes

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. As a result, Obama is to the right of Richard Nixon on most issues. And there is we believe, certainly some space to exploit there. And we, VICE, aim to exploit it.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.