Jeb Bush quotes

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.
-- Jeb Bush

#Experts #Borders #Way

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.
-- Jeb Bush

#Winning #Order #Election

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution,
-- Jeb Bush

#Believe #Problem #Progressive

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.
-- Jeb Bush

#Successful #Purple #Lasts

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed
-- Jeb Bush

#Ends #Middle #Sticky

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
-- Jeb Bush

#Yesterday #Needs #News

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
-- Jeb Bush

#Positive #Determination #Lines

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Half #Interviews

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.
-- Jeb Bush

#Family Love #Population #Prosperity

To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions
-- Jeb Bush

#Asking #Hitting #Interviews

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
-- Jeb Bush

#Believe #People #Principles

There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.
-- Jeb Bush

#School #Kids #Past

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
-- Jeb Bush

#Teacher #Differences #Making A Difference

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.
-- Jeb Bush

#People #Decision #Balance

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'
-- Jeb Bush

#Morning #Cat #Thinking

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
-- Jeb Bush

#Diversity #Way #Causes

I miss being governor.
-- Jeb Bush

#Missing

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Usa #Bully

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Growth #Needs

I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Baggage

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
-- Jeb Bush

#Mother #Father #Blessed

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.
-- Jeb Bush

#Voice #Trying #Tvs

We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.
-- Jeb Bush

#Government #Organization #Two

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
-- Jeb Bush

#Love Is #People #Painful

I think the voters can make up their own minds.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Mind #Voters

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.
-- Jeb Bush

#Mean #Stand Your Ground

I will support the Republican nominee.
-- Jeb Bush

#Support #Republican

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.
-- Jeb Bush

#Organization #Obamacare #Catholic

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

#Responsibility #Caring #Government

You cant just be against the president.
-- Jeb Bush

#President

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.
-- Jeb Bush

#Children #Blessing #Unique

I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I’m wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people’s fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective, and that’s kind of where we are.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #People #Perspective

I would say national security is work in progress.
-- Jeb Bush

#Progress #National Security #Work In Progress

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

#Stars #Night #Space

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
-- Jeb Bush

#Real #Responsibility #Blame

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

#Government #Order #Alternatives

I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.
-- Jeb Bush

#Years #Four #Asia

I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.
-- Jeb Bush

#Real #Thinking #People

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

#Thinking #Insulting #Immigration

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.
-- Jeb Bush

#Running #Successful #Campaigns

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
-- Jeb Bush

#People #Links #Percentages

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
-- Jeb Bush

#Campaigns #Lasting Impressions #Voters

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
-- Jeb Bush

#Links #Saws #Prosperity

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
-- Jeb Bush

#Country #Law #Borders

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
-- Jeb Bush

#Decision #Political #Polls

I have a blessed life in so many ways.
-- Jeb Bush

#Blessed #Way

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
-- Jeb Bush

#People #Parent #Empowering

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.
-- Jeb Bush

#Ideas #Support #Reform

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

#Thinking #People #Engagement

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

#Ice #Immigration #Enforcement

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

#Immigration #Voters #Gateways

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.
-- Jeb Bush

#Wife #Important #Miami

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
-- Jeb Bush

#Believe #Ethnicity #Race

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
-- Jeb Bush

#Morning #Axes #World

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
-- Jeb Bush

#Heart #People #Want

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

#Groups #Generations #Language

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

#Organization #Florida #Government

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.
-- Jeb Bush

#Eggs #Government #Long

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
-- Jeb Bush

#Independent #Florida #Voters

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.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Florida #President

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Scientist #Skeptic

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.
-- Jeb Bush

#Florida #Enforcement #Want

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.
-- Jeb Bush

#Jobs #Believe #Thinking

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

#Party #Thinking #White

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
-- Jeb Bush

#Figures

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

#Cutting #People #Enhancement

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
-- Jeb Bush

#Running #Believe #Cutting

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Giving #Political

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.
-- Jeb Bush

#Ambition #Eight #Years

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.
-- Jeb Bush

#Unique #Florida #Diversity

I don't miss politics.
-- Jeb Bush

#Missing