Marco Rubio Quotes

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

This organization [the United Nations] is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

If we want to be the leader of the world we have a unique responsibility to understand the problems of countries who cannot solve their own problems.

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples

… the many armed conflicts which continue to afflict the world today present us daily with dramatic images of misery, hunger, illness and death. Without peace, there can be no form of economic development.  Violence never begets peace, the necessary condition for development.

We can solve world peace and world famine.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

National security is not only building war machines to kill. National security is as much a policy of the living who prefer life over death, wellness over sickness, work over idleness, education over illiteracy, and food over hunger.

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses.

How are we going to make the people of the United States realize that if they want peace in the future they must make the sacrifices that are required to bring about economic improvement in a great many countries?

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.

I really don't want to live in a world where the U.N. will not be relevant, will not be seen as the enterprise we turn to when we have a problem.