Marco Rubio Quotes

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

Washington is broken.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Government is dysfunctional.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Congress actively undermines the best of legislative practice.

Congress has lost its capacity to manage itself.

Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.

The system happens to be Washington and the way politics works, because whatever it is, it isn't working. It defies common sense. And part and parcel of this, right in the middle of it is the media and their lying and their distorting and their favoritism and their efforts to impugn and destroy people like us who want to stop this mess that's been progressing in a deteriorating way for way too many years.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

I can personally testify that American politics have taken a distinctly downward turn in the space of one mature lifetime.

Politics is broken.

Everyone in Washington knows what needs to be done. They just don’t do it because there’s always someone else they can blame.

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?