Marco Rubio Quotes

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

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

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

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

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

We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

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.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

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.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

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.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.