Jeb Bush quotes

Jeb Bush is an American politician and businessman, best known as the former governor of Florida. A member of the influential Bush family, he played a significant role in shaping state and national Republican politics. He has been active in educational reform and was a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Here are 68 of his quotes:

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

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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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Ideas matter, policy matters.

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Whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow. ... They seem to be ever, ever-changing, depending on what crowd he's in front of. Sounds like a typical politician, by the way, where you get in front of one crowd and say one thing, and then say something else to another crowd that may want to hear a different view. All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into - it's kind of disturbing. ... He doesn't believe in things, this is all a game.

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It turns out there are people, typically they're probably unemployed kids with student debt you know that are stuck in their parents' basement with Cheetos stains on their t-shirts that haven't been able to get their first job so what they do is they play games to see how long they can edit Wikipedia pages in order to have games with their friends all around the world. So my advice to you is, if you do have a Wikipedia page, check it once in a while....

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How pathetic for @realdonaldtrump to criticize the president for 9/11. We were attacked & my brother kept us safe.

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I told my brother we were going to deliver Florida; we're going to keep that promise, aren't we?

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Children shouldn't be used as a negotiating tool. @realDonaldTrump should end this heartless policy and Congress should get an immigration deal done that provides for asylum reform, border security and a path to citizenship for Dreamers.

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What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush.

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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

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Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

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Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

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

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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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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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But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

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I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

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