Top 150 Jeb Bush Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.”

— Jeb Bush

52. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

53. “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

54. “Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn’t grow, then government suffers.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

56. “Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.”

— Jeb Bush

57. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

59. “Serious times require strong leadership.”

— Jeb Bush

60. “We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were – that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have – the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.”

— Jeb Bush

61. “Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.”

— Jeb Bush

62. “I don’t believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility.”

— Jeb Bush

63. “If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can’t disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.”

— Jeb Bush

64. “I’m a skeptic. I’m not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.”

— Jeb Bush

65. “You cant just be against the president.”

— Jeb Bush

66. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

67. “It’s not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.”

— Jeb Bush

68. “People, based on their emotions, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics, because there are none.”

— Jeb Bush

69. “We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.”

— Jeb Bush

70. “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.’”

— Jeb Bush

71. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

72. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

73. “If we’re serious about America’s leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

76. “I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.”

— Jeb Bush

77. “It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it’s not the best America can do.”

— Jeb Bush

78. “The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS – this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.”

— Jeb Bush

79. “Someone even called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.”

— Jeb Bush

80. “Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.”

— Jeb Bush

81. “You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.”

— Jeb Bush

82. “I will support the Republican nominee.”

— Jeb Bush

83. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

84. “If we’re going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?”

— Jeb Bush

85. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

86. “We’ve got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.”

— Jeb Bush

87. “What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.”

— Jeb Bush

88. “This is a tough business to run for president.”

— Jeb Bush

89. “I think the lesson’s learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.”

— Jeb Bush

90. “The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we’re going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.”

— Jeb Bush

91. “I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.”

— Jeb Bush

92. “Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He’s just a gifted politician that is appealing to people’s anger and frustration that is quite legitimate.”

— Jeb Bush

93. “This is something – we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.”

— Jeb Bush

94. “Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.”

— Jeb Bush

95. “A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.”

— Jeb Bush

96. “That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I’ve ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.”

— Jeb Bush

97. “To honor the people that died, we need to stop the Iran agreement, for sure, because the Iranian mullahs have their blood on their hands, and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal.”

— Jeb Bush

98. “I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.”

— Jeb Bush

99. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

100. “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.”

— Jeb Bush