Top 150 Jeb Bush Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.”

— Jeb Bush

2. “I have a blessed life in so many ways.”

— Jeb Bush

3. “Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time – not too early, not too late.”

— Jeb Bush

4. “I’m an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

6. “I’d say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don’t suffer fools well.”

— Jeb Bush

7. “Leaders lead. They don’t divide; they don’t create a climate that is poisonous.”

— Jeb Bush

8. “I’d be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.”

— Jeb Bush

9. “By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.”

— Jeb Bush

10. “If someone wants to run a campaign about ’90s nostalgia, it’s not going to be very successful.”

— Jeb Bush

11. “I’m the tortoise in the race, but I’m a joyful tortoise.”

— Jeb Bush

12. “A lot of things in history change over time.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

14. “Donald Trump would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.”

— Jeb Bush

15. “As president, I will keep you and our country safe, secure, and free.”

— Jeb Bush

16. “I’m energetic and passionate about the needs – the things we need to fix. I don’t feel old, I don’t feel like yesterday’s news.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

18. “Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn’t mean chase after somebody who’s turned their back.”

— Jeb Bush

19. “I used to be a conservative...”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

21. “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?”

— Jeb Bush

22. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

23. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

25. “ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can’t even project power anymore.”

— Jeb Bush

26. “We’re sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed.”

— Jeb Bush

27. “We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.”

— Jeb Bush

28. “If I’m president, I’ll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.”

— Jeb Bush

29. “I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.”

— Jeb Bush

30. “Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.”

— Jeb Bush

31. “Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun to lead the free world to protect our civilized way of life.”

— Jeb Bush

32. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

33. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

34. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

35. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

36. “Hillary Clinton is using a private server for – where classified information go by. This is a – this is a serious administration?”

— Jeb Bush

37. “The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They’re Muslim.”

— Jeb Bush

38. “Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

40. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

41. “It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I’m going with the Sisters.”

— Jeb Bush

42. “Is Islam a religion of peace? I’m sure for some of the practitioners, but it’s been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they’re barbarians.”

— Jeb Bush

43. “I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.”

— Jeb Bush

44. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

45. “Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.”

— Jeb Bush

46. “I’m pro-life. The law protects women’s right to chose, and I think there’s a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

48. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

49. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush