Marco Rubio Quotes

I don’t chose my friends and associates on the basis of political party. The Senate has become altogether too nasty.

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

I think it's very important to get ego out of the room. I think it's important to realize it takes two hands to clap - stop the pointing, stop the blame game. I think we've seen enough of that, I think the country is tired of it. I think they want to see Washington function, they want to see action.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

The House Republicans are not the enemy, they’re the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.

Liberalism is: To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.

We've shown a willingness to do the right thing, and we've shown a willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion. The problems are on the Republican side.

The worst thing about our political system is that people debate; I wish our politicians were able to talk to each other rather than scream while trying to gain sound bites.

I've been able to bridge divides in a very partisan time and get Republicans and Democrats to work with me to try to improve people's lives.

I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.

People who truly represent an extreme on either side have a very difficult time getting bipartisan support for what they're doing.

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.