Marco Rubio Quotes

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

I don’t know if President (George W.) Bush understood how extreme some of the arguments were about executive power that some people in his administration were making.

President Obama is permanently ambivalent .

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances. Presidents Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II sought legal advice about the outer bounds of their power - even if they did not always use it. Our leaders should ask legal questions first, before setting policy or making decisions in a fog of uncertainty.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we're very excited about what he's doing because what he's doing is pulling back what we see as unconstitutional executive actions from the past presidents.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

Moving forward, the best way is going to be something that is going to be a collective decision, that is made, of course, with President-elect [Donald] Trump having the primary say as to how to move forward. But all those opinions will be in the room.

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.