Marco Rubio delivers a strong message to Europe about being forever tied to the continent through "the deepest bonds that nations could share," including "Christian faith" and "culture"—and receives thunderous applause from the Munich audience:
"We belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritence—an unbreakable link between the Old World and the new.
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 sacrifies our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir...
...We care deeply about your future and ours. And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from our profound sense of concern about a Europe with which we are connected, not just economically, not just militarily. We are connected spiritually, and we are connected culturally. We want Europe to be strong; we believe that Europe must survive...ultimately, our destiny is, and will always be, intertwined with yours because we know that the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own."