Jeb Bush Quotes & Sayings

#1. I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

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#2. I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

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#3. My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

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#4. Every weapons system has been gutted.

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#5. You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

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#6. If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

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#7. Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

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#8. I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

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#9. I kinda miss Donald Trump, he was a little teddy bear to me.

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#10. I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

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#11. Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

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#12. We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

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#13. I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.

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#14. I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

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#15. States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

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#16. Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

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#17. People, based on their emotions, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics, because there are none.

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#18. I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

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#19. I have a blessed life.

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#20. If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

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#21. You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

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#22. I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of a state, a purple state and I was the most successful conservative governor probably, during the time that I was there.

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#23. There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

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#24. It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.

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#25. My belief is that most people are conservative. They just haven't been asked yet.

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#26. Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

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#27. I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.

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#28. Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

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#29. A lot of things in history change over time.

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#30. What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

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#31. Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

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#32. If we want to destroy ISIS,if we expect to do this on our own, we will fail but if we do it in unison with people who are also are at risk and threatened by Islamic Radical terrorism, we'll be far more successful.

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#33. Someone even called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

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#34. I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

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#35. Donald [Trump], is great at - at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate.

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#36. There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

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#37. People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

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#38. I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people.

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#39. My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.

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#40. We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.

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#41. I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

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#42. I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

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#43. I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

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#44. We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.

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#45. If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

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#46. Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

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#47. I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.

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#48. I think the voters can make up their own minds.

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#49. I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

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#50. The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.

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#51. If we're going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?

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#52. [ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

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#53. I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

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#54. The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

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#55. I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.

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#56. They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

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#57. It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I'm going with the Sisters.

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#58. It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.

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#59. I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

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#60. Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

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#61. You cant just be against the president.

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#62. We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.

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#63. I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

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#64. I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

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#65. They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

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#66. I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.

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#67. I'm energetic and passionate about the needs - the things we need to fix. I don't feel old, I don't feel like yesterday's news

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#68. I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

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#69. Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal.

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#70. You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

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#71. I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

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#72. It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.

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#73. Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing ... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

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#74. We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.

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#75. If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.

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#76. You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch.

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#77. We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

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#78. In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

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#79. I'm comfortable with the life I have.

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#80. America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in
often distant places.

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#81. Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

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#82. Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.

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#83. I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

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#84. Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

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#85. A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

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#86. The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

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#87. Look, the FBI has the tools necessary un-American activities in our country. It goes on, we shouldn't even be talking about it.

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#88. I think life is precious from beginning to end.

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#89. You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.

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#90. I loved being governor. It was a blast. Eight years was enough. But it was certainly one of the greatest thrills in my life to be able to serve the people of Florida. I miss that from time to time.

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