Jeb Bush Quotations | Page 4

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

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.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

I want to win.We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every day. Dividing the country. Saying, creating a grievance kind of environment. We're going to win when we unite people with a hopeful, optimistic message. I have that message because I was a governor of a state that saw people lifted up, because we had high sustained economic growth.

I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world.But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver.We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

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.

We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we`re in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.

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

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

If we`re going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I'm going with the Sisters.

I will support the Republican nominee.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H.W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W.'s brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.

I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.

I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.

A lot of things in history change over time.

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.

You cant just be against the president.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness.

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.

The good news is, we have a huge opportunity here because the President`s [Barack Obama] policies have failed.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

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.

I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.

I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses.

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized

I don't know about you, but I'm betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.

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

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

I have a blessed life in so many ways.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

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.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

I don't miss politics.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Hillary Clinton has aligned herself with Barack Obama on ISIS, Iran and the economy. It's an alliance doomed to fail. My proven record suggests that - my detailed plans will fortify our national and economic security. And my proven record as governor makes - will give you a sense that I don't make false promises.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

I would say national security is work in progress.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

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

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

I miss being governor.

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 I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.

I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.

I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people.

I used to be a conservative...

Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

What we have in Washington is total gridlock.

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.

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

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.

Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal.

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

We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.

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

There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.

I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of a state, a purple state and I was the most successful conservative governor probably, during the time that I was there.

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