Jeb Bush Quotes

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

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

This is a tough business to run for president.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none ... so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donald Trump would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.

I kind of miss Donald Trump. He was a little teddy bear to me.

They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

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.

I miss being governor.

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

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

Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

I used to be a conservative.

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

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.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

I have a blessed life in so many ways.

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

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

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.

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.'

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

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

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

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

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

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

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

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

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

I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.

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

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

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

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.