--- description: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign with a speech at Miami's Freedom Tower. Here is a transcript of his full remarks. title: Read Full Text of Sen. Marco Rubio's Campaign Launch image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c5a84bcc4353089/6987eadbe53aba69d74db4b8/marco-rubio1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Transcript: Read Full Text of Sen. Marco Rubio's Campaign Launch by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 13, 2015 10:23 PM CUT  U.S. Senator Marco Rubio announces his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election race during a speech in Miami, Fla. on April 13, 2015. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio announces his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election race during a speech in Miami, Fla. on April 13, 2015.Joe Skipper–Reuters by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 13, 2015 10:23 PM CUT Florida Sen. Marco Rubio [launched his presidential campaign](http://time.com/3819977/marco-rubio-campaign-launch/ "undefined") Monday with a speech at Miami’s Freedom Tower. Here is a transcript of the full remarks. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/"},"headline":"Transcript: Read Full Text of Sen. Marco Rubio's Campaign Launch","datePublished":"2015-04-13T22:23:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:22:17.143Z","description":"Florida Sen. Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign with a speech at Miami's Freedom Tower. Here is a transcript of his full remarks.","url":"https://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/","keywords":["2016 Election topic","Sen. Marco Rubio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c5a84bcc4353089/6987eadbe53aba69d74db4b8/marco-rubio1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c5a84bcc4353089/6987eadbe53aba69d74db4b8/marco-rubio1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Senator Rubio announces bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election race during speech in Miami","caption":"U.S. Senator Rubio announces bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election race during speech in Miami","creditText":"Joe Skipper–Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/","name":"Transcript: Read Full Text of Sen. Marco Rubio's Campaign Launch"}}]}] ```