--- title: Marco Rubio url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/marco-rubio/ description: 6 verified quotes from Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of a vintage television wall broadcasting archival news footage, surrounded by press clippings and film reels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-watch-briefs.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · United States # Marco Rubio ![Marco Rubio, official portrait, January 2025](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/trump-administration/marco-rubio.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Secretary_Marco_Rubio,_January_2025.jpg): U.S. Department of State, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Secretary of State · United States On the regime page: [Trump administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/trump-administration/#marco-rubio) 6 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=marco-rubio). 1. > “The post-war global order is not just obsolete. It is now a weapon being used against us, and all this has led to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive and in this room today.” — January 15, 2025 · Testimony · Washington, DC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee — Opening statement as the nominee for Secretary of State, then a US Senator from Florida. The prepared statement submitted to the committee carries the same sentence with slightly different punctuation; the hearing text is used here. — Statement at the nomination hearing of Marco Rubio to be Secretary of State, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 15 January 2025, S. Hrg. 119-12 (GPO, 2025), p. 10 [Source](https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6df93f4b-a83c-89ac-0fac-9b586715afd8/011525_Transcript_Nomination%20of%20Marco%20Rubio%20to%20be%20Secretary%20of%20State.pdf) 2. > “We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we're going to take it away.” — March 27, 2025 · Statement · Georgetown, Guyana, joint press availability with President Irfaan Ali — Asked about the revocation of the student visa of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University detained by immigration agents in Massachusetts on 25 March 2025. Rubio said the State Department had revoked her visa. — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Guyanese President Irfaan Ali at a Joint Press Availability, US Department of State transcript, 27 March 2025 (answer to a question from Reuters) [Source](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2025/03/mil-250327-state03.htm) 3. > “Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil.” — May 28, 2025 · Statement · Washington, DC, US Department of State — State Department press statement announcing a visa policy under section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act aimed at foreign officials judged to censor speech by US persons or US platforms. — Press statement, "Announcement of a Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans," Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, 28 May 2025 [Source](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2025/05/mil-250528-state01.htm) 4. **Content note:** Describes immigration as a threat to a nation's culture and people. The words are shown as they were said or written. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) — > “And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.” — February 14, 2026 · Speech · Munich, Germany, Munich Security Conference Verified (secondary source) — Speech to an audience of European and other government leaders. Rubio set out the administration's view of transatlantic relations and called for what he described as a renewed Western alliance. — Address of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Munich Security Conference, 14 February 2026, as-delivered transcript [Source](https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/marcorubiomunichsecurityconference2026.htm) 5. > “We are part of one civilization -- Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.” — February 14, 2026 · Speech · Munich, Germany, Munich Security Conference Verified (secondary source) — Passage of the same Munich speech. Rubio described the US and Europe as parts of one civilization. — Address of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Munich Security Conference, 14 February 2026, as-delivered transcript [Source](https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/marcorubiomunichsecurityconference2026.htm) 6. > “Controlling who and how many people enter our countries, this is not an expression of xenophobia. It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty. And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to our people. It is an urgent threat to the fabric of our societies and the survival of our civilization itself.” — February 14, 2026 · Speech · Munich, Germany, Munich Security Conference Verified (secondary source) — Passage on border control in the same speech; a later passage of the speech refers to 'the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike.' — Address of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Munich Security Conference, 14 February 2026, as-delivered transcript [Source](https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/marcorubiomunichsecurityconference2026.htm)