Marco Rubio Quotes

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?

We must not just change presidents. We must change direction.

A revolution has taken place within the government but it has not yet penetrated civil society.

Real freedom will require many changes in the nation’s political and social philosophies and institutions.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not a free, sovereign position - it is an office that is confined by the occupation. That's why this position is not interesting for Hamas.

A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.