Jeb Bush Quotes
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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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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
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I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.
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There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.
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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.
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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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.
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When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
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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.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.
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I think life is precious from beginning to end.
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I have a blessed life.
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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.
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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.
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And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.
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My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.
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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'.