Marco Rubio Quotes

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

You've got to have a theme if you're going to get Congress to do something difficult.

The way you get anything done in the Congress is through coalitions.

[Addressing Congress:] The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker ... Let us negotiate soon—and hard. But in the end, let us produce.

We have a constitution that says that the way you get things is by passing legislation, not by threatening to destroy the country unless you get your way.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

I do politics in order to do policy.