“I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone’s health care? He said it’s false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.”

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who’s coming in.

The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump’s henchmen, and I don’t think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.

Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.

We are the change we’re waiting for.

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If – and the if is critical – they’re willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.

I’m not going to impugn anyone’s integrity. I’m not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I’m not going to go personal with them.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

In the 13 months I’ve been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they’re forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, ‘Oh, you looked amazing – why didn’t you keep that?’ Not, ‘Oh my God – I can’t believe you wore that.’

The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!

You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never yours to begin with.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.