Marco Rubio Quotes

Would I consider a run for political office? Yes.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

Sometimes you're going to run because you want to elevate an issue. Sometimes you're going to run because you want to do public service, and it's a way to not only tell the community what you care about what you want to achieve, but you're making a commitment.

I didn't think I was ever going to run for office.

I think the most important thing to know is I'm running for governor because I love the state of Michigan.

I never thought I would run for office.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.