Top 70 Bobby Jindal Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We need a doer, not a talker.”

— Bobby Jindal

2. “Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.”

— Bobby Jindal

3. “My background is in health care.”

— Bobby Jindal

4. “The American dream means that you have the chance to work hard, get an education and do great things for yourself, for your kids. The great thing in American is it doesn’t matter what your last name is, doesn’t matter if you’re wealthy.”

— Bobby Jindal

5. “My parents are proud of their Indian heritage, but they came halfway across the world so their children could be born here, raised here as Americans. They came legally, but they came here in search of the American dream, in search of freedom and opportunity.”

— Bobby Jindal

6. “We must stop being the stupid party.”

— Bobby Jindal

7. “I’m not running for president to be somebody, I’m running for president to do something!”

— Bobby Jindal

8. “We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn’t have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!”

— Bobby Jindal

9. “The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.”

— Bobby Jindal

10. “The day that we’ve been fearing is upon us.”

— Bobby Jindal

11. “Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don’t beat evil with weakness. You don’t beat evil with concessions. You don’t beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.”

— Bobby Jindal

12. “On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.”

— Bobby Jindal

13. “We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.”

— Bobby Jindal

14. “Peace through strength works. We’ve got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.”

— Bobby Jindal

15. “I’m so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we’re not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We’re all Americans.”

— Bobby Jindal

16. “It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.”

— Bobby Jindal

17. “Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana’s shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana’s economy in total.”

— Bobby Jindal

18. “The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.”

— Bobby Jindal

19. “I’m tired of hyphenated Americans.”

— Bobby Jindal

20. “I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we’ve got to go through the Supreme Court.”

— Bobby Jindal

21. “Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?”

— Bobby Jindal

22. “We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.”

— Bobby Jindal

23. “As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.”

— Bobby Jindal

24. “Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.”

— Bobby Jindal

25. “The threat of terrorism is great and with today’s porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.”

— Bobby Jindal

26. “The United States didn’t create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It’s the reason we are here today. This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don’t think you give up this right by simply taking a job.”

— Bobby Jindal

27. “I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.”

— Bobby Jindal

28. “Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.”

— Bobby Jindal

29. “The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.”

— Bobby Jindal

30. “I’m not for amnesty. I’ve never been for amnesty, will never be for amnesty.”

— Bobby Jindal

31. “We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.”

— Bobby Jindal

32. “I’ve got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can’t do it alone. With your help, with God’s grace, we can save the idea of America before it’s too late.”

— Bobby Jindal

33. “Thirty percent of the Nation’s energy comes off the gulf coast.”

— Bobby Jindal

34. “India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.”

— Bobby Jindal

35. “We don’t measure our people’s success in how they’re doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.”

— Bobby Jindal

36. “I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs. We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That’s where this fight is going.”

— Bobby Jindal

37. “It’s not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.”

— Bobby Jindal

38. “Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they’re trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.”

— Bobby Jindal

39. “It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It’s a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.”

— Bobby Jindal

40. “When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.”

— Bobby Jindal

41. “Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don’t play to lose.”

— Bobby Jindal

42. “To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.”

— Bobby Jindal

43. “I think that local school districts – not the federal government – should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.”

— Bobby Jindal

44. “When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we’ve lost our way.”

— Bobby Jindal

45. “I think the president can set a tone and say we’re not divided by gender, age, race. We’re all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.”

— Bobby Jindal

46. “I’m not running to manage the decline of this great country. I’m running to make real changes.”

— Bobby Jindal

47. “We want to rescue the American dream.”

— Bobby Jindal

48. “Here’s an idea: How about just ‘Americans?’ That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our ‘separateness’ is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.”

— Bobby Jindal

49. “Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”

— Bobby Jindal

50. “Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.”

— Bobby Jindal