Marco Rubio Quotes About American Dream

Quotes about: American Dream

• The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Names

• The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Community

• This election [in 2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Military, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Giving Up, Disappointment

• Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Father, Journey

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

• It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Next, Imagine

  "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

• Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.18, Penguin

• I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Jobs, Taken

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.19, Penguin

• Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Believe, Home

• Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Believe, Effort

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.62, Penguin

• Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Blow, Would Be

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.10, Penguin

• At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Men

  "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

• Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Proposal, Program

  "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

• Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Jobs, Government

  "Dog Whistle Politics: How Politicians Use Coded Racism to Push Through Policies Hurting All". www.democracynow.org. January 14, 2014.

• The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, Erosion

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

• We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Country, Perseverance

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

• American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Dream, Jobs

• The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, American Dream, Building

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse, you know you're not going to become a billionaire. And what my parents achieved working as a bartender and a maid at a hotel after arriving here with nothing, no education, no money. The first words my dad learned in English where I'm looking for a job.You know what my parents achieved? They owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. They retired with dignity and they left all four of their children better off than themselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• 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.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Misunderstood, Rich

• I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Running, Believe

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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