Marco Rubio Quotes

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

There are problems in the world today.

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life." "Oh boy." My nose wrinkled. "Hello, Mr Comfortable. I'm Miss Complicated." His grin flashed. "Never a dull moment.

I have no complaints, except for the world.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

The American people aren't focused on the debates of the past. They're focused on their future. They're focused on the challenges that we're facing at home and abroad.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

I believe engineers will save the world.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

I don't expect us to cover all the issues of this campaign [2016] tonight, but I remind everyone, there are two more presidential debates scheduled. We are going to focus on many of the issues that voters tell us are most important, and we're going to press for specifics.