Jeb Bush Quotes
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There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'
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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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There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.
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You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.
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We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.
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I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.
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If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.
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Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.
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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
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It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
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If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.
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People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.
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I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.
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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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Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.
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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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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.
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I support high academic standards. Period.
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I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
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It's a volatile time.
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Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
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I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
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If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.
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Immigrants are more fertile.