Top 311 Quotes & Sayings by Jeb Bush - Page 2

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

I do a lot of traveling overseas.

I have a blessed life.

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.

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.

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

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

Immigrants are more fertile.

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

I support high academic standards. Period.

I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

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.

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

I don't miss politics.

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

I loved being governor. It was a blast. Eight years was enough. But it was certainly one of the greatest thrills in my life to be able to serve the people of Florida. I miss that from time to time.

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.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

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.

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

I want my voice to have purpose.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

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.

I will support the Republican nominee.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

I miss being governor.

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.

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.

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

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.

If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

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

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch.

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.