Marco Rubio Quotes

[Summarizing his political career:] Just say I was sober and I meant to do every damn thing I did

I would rather have a full term in the Senate—a place in which I would feel more consciously able to discharge the duties required, and where there is more chance to make a reputation, and less danger of losing it than four years of the presidency.

What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H.W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W.'s brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

I say this in the utmost affection ... he has passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Everybody in politics writes a book and the books are dull—almost as dull as the people who wrote them.

Bobby Kennedy is pathetic as a senator.

I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

Politics has been a roller coaster, but I'll never look back and say, 'Why did I do it?' In fact, if my son decided to join politics tomorrow, he has my full and unconditional support.

I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.

The truth is truth. I have never made a charge in my political career of 30 years where I have been disapproved. No defamation case has succeeded against me.

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

I never went around saying who my brother was. Everybody else was doing that.

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

It's a great honour to have the nickname of Iceman, it makes me feel very proud of my achievements.

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.