Jeb Bush Quotes
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I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.
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In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'
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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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I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
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I will support the Republican nominee.
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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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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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I miss being governor.
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I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
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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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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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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, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
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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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I have a blessed life.
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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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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.
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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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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
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The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
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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.