Quotes About Jeb Bush

#1. Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.

Jimmy Fallon

#2. 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.

Jeb Bush

#3. Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.

Donald Trump

#4. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#6. We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.

Jeb Bush

#7. I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

Jeb Bush

#8. If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Jeb Bush

#9. 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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#10. Every weapons system has been gutted.

Jeb Bush

#11. I've had a life experience that's full of warts, full of successes.

Jeb Bush

#12. I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

Jeb Bush

#13. Jeb Bush has to distance himself from what they call the Bush brand. So he keeps saying, 'I am my own man.' But when Governor Chris Christie is out on the campaign trail, he's always saying, 'I'm my own man, plus another guy.'

David Letterman

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

Jeb Bush

#15. We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Jeb Bush

#16. You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

Jeb Bush

#17. I am very fond of Jeb Bush. He's a friend; he was a terrific governor of Florida. I worked with him on some immigration and education issues.

Condoleezza Rice

#18. We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

Jeb Bush

#19. Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.

Donald Trump

#20. Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

Stephen Colbert

#21. 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.

Jeb Bush

#22. Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#24. Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

Gaston Caperton

#25. Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.

Jeb Bush

#26. I do a lot of traveling overseas.

Jeb Bush

#27. A lot of people really like Jeb Bush. I'm one of them. I think Jeb Bush is a great guy. He was a terrific governor in Florida. He's smart. He's articulate. So I can certainly understand why people would him an attractive candidate.

Mike Huckabee

#28. There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

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

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

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#32. To honor the people that died, we need to stop the Iran agreement, for sure, because the Iranian mullahs have their blood on their hands, and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal.

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#33. If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.

Jeb Bush

#34. As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Jeb Bush

#35. The problem is we need toughness. Honestly, I think Jeb[Bush] is a very nice person. He's a very nice person. But we need tough people. We need toughness. We need intelligence and we need tough.

Donald Trump

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

Jeb Bush

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

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#38. I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

Columba Bush

#39. Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

Jeb Bush

#40. 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.

Jeb Bush

#41. Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

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#42. 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.

Jeb Bush

#43. Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.

Jeb Bush

#44. Look at Jeb Bush, $115 million and Jeb actually stated in December 2014 that he was going to win this primary by not winning it. He was going to win it without winning base voters. They have made it clear they want nothing of their base. They're embarrassed of their base.

Rush Limbaugh

#45. 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.

Jeb Bush

#46. Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.

Chris Hayes

#47. Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up.

Conan O'Brien

#48. I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

Jeb Bush

#49. But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Jeb Bush

#50. Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Jeb Bush

#51. Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#54. We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

Jeb Bush

#55. Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

Conan O'Brien

#56. Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.

George W. Bush

#57. Jeb Bush is the new John Connelly.

Chuck Todd

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

Jeb Bush

#59. If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

Jeb Bush

#60. We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

Jeb Bush

#61. We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

Jeb Bush

#62. I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

Jeb Bush

#63. Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.

Jeb Bush

#64. Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'

Conan O'Brien

#65. I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

E. J. Dionne

#66. I have a blessed life.

Jeb Bush

#67. You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.

Jeb Bush

#68. The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we're going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.

Jeb Bush

#69. We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

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#70. Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Jeb Bush

#71. The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

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

Jeb Bush

#74. I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.

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

Jeb Bush

#77. Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

John Boehner

#78. I would say national security is work in progress.

Jeb Bush

#79. 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.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#81. A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

Jeb Bush

#82. I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.

Jeb Bush

#83. We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

Jeb Bush

#84. There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

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#85. 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?

Jeb Bush

#86. Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Jeb Bush

#87. As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.

Jeb Bush

#88. Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war in Iraq that his brother started. All he needs is a hot tub time machine.

David Letterman

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

Jeb Bush

#90. And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

Jeb Bush

#91. If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.

Jeb Bush

#92. It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#94. Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#96. Jeb Bush announced today on the Internet that he may run for president. The next presidential election could be Bush vs. Clinton. It will be like 1992 all over again except I won't be in rehab.

Craig Ferguson

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

Jeb Bush

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

Jeb Bush

#99. I'm a grinder ... I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

Jeb Bush

#100. I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.

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