Marco Rubio

“We are special because we've been united not by a common race or a common ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That's what makes America special.”

“The American dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.”

“Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.”

“Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.”

“My parents taught me that I had a responsibility to be a good citizen and to be a good man.”

“The government can't create jobs; the government can't create prosperity. The government can create the conditions that allow entrepreneurs and private businesses to create jobs and prosperity.”

“Our problem is not that we have too many fools in government. The problem is that we have too many politicians in government.”

“Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our leadership is essential to the cause of human liberty.”

“For too long, we have been a country that has celebrated wealth over work.”

“We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life.”

“My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful.”

“Capitalism is the only economic system that has ever produced widespread prosperity.”

“The purpose of our foreign policy is to protect the interests of the American people.”

“To be a conservative in America is not to be a pessimist. It is to be an optimist.”

“We live in a world where there are dangerous people and dangerous countries. And they have to be confronted.”

“I don't believe that the laws of chemistry and physics and biology...should be thrown out the window just because they don't appear in a specific book.”

“I want to be the president of the United States. I want to be the president of the United States for the people who are struggling.”

“In Florida, we are world-famous for our beaches. We're not famous for our mountains.”

“I believe that God has blessed this country with extraordinary prosperity. But I also believe that God's blessings are not a license to indulge in our own desires.”

“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”