Appearing on ABC's “This Week” after receiving much criticism for repeatedly bringing up remarks criticizing President Barack Obama at Saturday night’s GOP debate, Sen. Marco Rubio defended his comments to George Stephanopoulos, saying he would keep them coming.

“Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama does not know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing," the 44-year-old Florida senator said during the debate. "Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country, to make America more like the rest of the world. That’s why he passed Obamacare and the stimulus and Dodd-Frank and the deal with Iran. It is a systematic effort to change America."

Rubio explained that, as president, he would re-embrace all the things he believed once made America the greatest nation in the world.

According to Rubio’s official site, some of the ways Rubio would return the U.S. to prosperity, as he perceives it, include curtailing the government's power to claim private property under eminent domain, and undoing the Obama administration’s latest policies toward Cuba.

Rubio Repeats Himself

Drawing loud applause for his initial verbal attack on Obama, Rubio seemed to feel free to repeat the same information several times during the course of the debate.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie was quick to point out that Rubio’s talk meant nothing as he had no experience actually running anything.

“You see everybody, I want the people at home to think about this," Gov. Christie said. "That’s what Washington D.C. does, the drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisers gave him.”

After Trump’s loss in Iowa, polls showed Rubio had a real shot at becoming the GOP presidential candidate. Before Saturday's debate, figures from Public Policy Poling gave Rubio 21 percent of the votes while Christie had just 3 percent.

Christie chided Rubio directly from the stage, telling him a real leader knew that simply praising America would not solve a single problem for a single person.

When Rubio started to restate his information on Obama, Christie countered: “There it is, there it is, the memorized 25-second speech. There it is everybody.”

Rubio Proud of Soundbite

Rubio was unfazed by the criticism he received and told Stephanopoulos he would actually pay the networks to play his soundbite over and over.

"I would pay for them to keep running that clip, because that's what I believe passionately," Rubio said. "It's one of the reasons why I'm not running for re-election to the Senate, and I'm running for president."

Sticking to the words that garnered so much criticism, Rubio explained again how Obama had a plan to turn the U.S. into a more socialist nation. The senator was adamant the president had robbed the U.S. of everything that once made it great.

"Barack Obama -- yes, has he hired incompetent people to implement laws and run agencies? Absolutely. But when it comes to the -- what he's trying to do to America, it's part of a plan. He has said he wanted to change the country; he's doing it in a way that is robbing us of everything that makes us special,” said Rubio.

Rubio continued defending his debate performace, explaining it worked wonders for him. “We raised more money in the first hour of that debate than any other debate.” Rubio said he would keep to the same message, because it was true.

Watch his interview on "This Week" and his debate performance: