Marco Rubio Quotes

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down.

Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.

I think this country is genuinely a meritocracy.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Let the path be open to talent.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

Our country has become the land of opportunity to those born without inheritance.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.

America is a meritocracy.

If you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to move up.

Competition is for everyone.