Over the weekend, Sen. Marco Rubio spoke at a Tea Party rally in Orlando. At the beginning of his remarks, the freshman was heckled. But Rubio did not mind. In fact, he loved it. It was a sign that he has arrived, and that others are getting heated about his ideas. “That is the first heckler that I have ever had,” he exclaimed, his finger pointed at the yelping voter. “So congratulations, thank you!” The crowd roared.

The biggest cheer, however, came when Rubio noted his opposition to the Boehner-White House spending deal. “Things are moving in the wrong direction so fast, that if we don’t change course, you and I will live, soon, to see the day where America is diminished,” he said. “It’s not too late to get back on the right track. And we can make a difference. But we have to understand that this is not just another debate. That is why, yesterday, I voted against that budget.”

As Rubio slammed the ‘continuing resolution,’ the large audience jumped to its feet.

“Let me be fair,” Rubio said. “I think our leaders up there, a lot of them, they worked really hard, they think they did the best they could. I get all that. But let me tell you something: we are running out of time. . . . We no longer have the luxury of small solutions to this big problem.”

Rubio then made the case for entitlement reform, taking direct aim at President Obama’s response to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget. He defended the GOP position. “We don’t want Medicare to be on the verge of bankruptcy. We don’t want Social Security to be on the verge of bankruptcy,” he said. “That’s the situation that we face.”

“When the president of the United States stands behind a podium, and accuses his political opponents of wanting to deny the elderly services, that is outrageous,” he continued. “The truth is, those who stand by and say, ‘do nothing with Medicare, do nothing with Social Security,’ they are the ones that are advocating bankrupting these programs and ultimately, our country.”

Rubio also talked up America’s role in the world. Watch his remarks below: