Jeb Bush Quotes
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I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
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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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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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We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.
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Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
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Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
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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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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 try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.
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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
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Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.
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You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
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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.
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I don't miss politics.
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I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.
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The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.
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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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A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
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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.
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Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
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We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. 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.
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In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'
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You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure: he kept us safe.
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I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.