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Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 in a press conference:

In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."

By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2014 in a speech to the NRA:

"No other country has a constitutional right" like the Second Amendment.

By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 in a speech:

Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on January 6, 2014 in a video:

"In my home state, nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty."

By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 in a speech at American Enterprise Institute:

"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."

By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 in GOP response to Obama's State of the Union:

"I still live in the same working-class neighborhood I grew up in."

By Katie Sanders • February 14, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2013 in an interview:

The United States has "an immigration system where only 6.5 percent of people who come here, come here based on labor and skill."

By Amy Sherman • January 16, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on August 26, 2012 in an interview on 'Face the Nation':

"There is an increasing amount of evidence from public polling that the highest number of Americans ever identify themselves as pro-life."

By Amy Sherman • August 31, 2012

Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2012 in a TV interview:

"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’

By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2012

Marco Rubio
stated on July 17, 2011 in interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":

"We have not had unemployment this high for this long since the Great Depression."

By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2011

Marco Rubio
stated on July 7, 2011 in an interview with CBS:

"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"

By Amy Sherman • July 13, 2011

Marco Rubio
stated on June 14, 2011 in his first speech on the U.S. Senate floor:

"Anywhere in the world, when someone uses a mobile phone, e-mail, the Internet or GPS, they are enjoying the benefits of the American miracle."

By Becky Bowers • June 15, 2011

Marco Rubio
stated on March 30, 2011 in an opinion article in the 'Wall Street Journal':

To pay for government growth, leaders of both parties "borrowed $4 billion a day, leaving us with today's $14 trillion debt."

By Laura Figueroa • April 15, 2011

Marco Rubio
stated on March 30, 2011 in a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed:

"Corporate taxes will soon be the highest in the industrialized world."

By Becky Bowers • April 4, 2011

Marco Rubio
stated on October 6, 2010 in an ABC News U.S. Senate debate.:

"The years that I was speaker, the Florida House consistently offered leaner budgets than the governor offered."

By Aaron Sharockman • October 8, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on August 2, 2010 in a campaign video:

"If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending."

By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on July 9, 2010 in a press release:

"$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crist's political photo-op special session."

By Amy Sherman • July 14, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2010 in an interview with Glenn Beck:

"Close to half of the folks in this country illegally entered legally (but) overstayed (their ) visas."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 18, 2010

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