Jeb Bush Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

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

You cant just be against the president.

The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses.

I will support the Republican nominee.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

A lot of things in history change over time.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

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

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.

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

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

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.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

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

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn't get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that's not - I'm not going to be bought by anyone.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.

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

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

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we're in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

Every weapon system has been gutted.

That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.

The good news is, we have a huge opportunity here because the President's [Barack Obama] policies have failed.

We need a serious leader to deal with this. And I believe I'm that guy.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

As president, I will keep you and our country safe, secure, and free.

If we're going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.

ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.