Marco Rubio During Budget Hearing Amid Iran War: We Remain the World’s Sole Global Superpower

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RUBIO: “We believe that America should lead the world, and I believe that we are and will have a very good story to tell about that. American leadership, however, should always be on behalf of the American interest. I say this because I think over a period of time in our foreign policy, we lost focus on that. The reality of it is that our foreign policy, first and foremost, must always be what is in the national interest of the United States of America. And determining the national interest oftentimes requires us to make pragmatic decisions. Sometimes in foreign policy, the choices are not between a good choice and a bad choice; it’s between two less-than-ideal choices and you’re trying to figure out which one of these two choices is the one that is best for the United States and least harmful to our interests. And that plays out every single day. That said, we remain the world’s sole global superpower -- the most powerful country on Earth. We have the largest economy; we have the most formidable and powerful military ever known to man, by the way; our dollar remains the reserve currency of the world; our language is used extensively throughout the world to transact all sorts of business and many of our engagements. But all of this means very little if that power is not used to protect the people who built it, the people who it is meant to protect.”