Marco Rubio Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

  Marco Rubio

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

• 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

• I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Opportunity, America

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

• The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Government, Poverty

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

• I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Blessed

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• 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

• ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Issues, Community

• 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.

• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

• I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Giving, Want

• We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.‎

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Men, Rights

  Source: www.cnn.com

• I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs...but to teach my faith to my children...and to share it with anyone who will listen...that is my right too!

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Rights, Belief

• I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they are, where they're living. They're not paying taxes, but they're showing up in emergency rooms. They're driving up the cost of auto insurance 'cause they don't have driver's licenses and are getting into accidents. They're having children, which are US citizens. So, I mean, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Mean

  "EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 18, 2013.

• The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Revolution, Assuming

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2016

• With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

  Marco Rubio

  Crush, Dream, Children

• We have seen that [Zika virus] has caused, and is causing, a whole series of problems for pregnant women and for their unborn children, and we are seeing that it is transmitted by mosquitos, and mosquitos are a serious matter during the summer in Florida. So we are very worried about those funds not being available. There is $500 million dollars available from the Ebola money that was not used. I think it is going to be used immediately.

  Marco Rubio

  Summer, Children, Thinking

• This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Party

• After eight years of Barack Obama and one crazy election, we almost got it wrong. We came this close. But then we remembered who we were. Then we remembered what America was. Then we confronted our challenges and embraced our opportunities. And because we did what needed to be done in 2016, our children became the freest and most prosperous Americans that ever lived.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Crazy, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Years, Two

• We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Educational, School

  Source: www.cbsnews.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

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