Top 150 Jeb Bush Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I have said that Mr. Trump’s language is divisive.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

103. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

105. “I would not have gone into Iraq.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

107. “We can grow economically and restore America’s leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.”

— Jeb Bush

108. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

109. “Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that’s second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That’s how you keep America safe.”

— Jeb Bush

110. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

111. “Two months ago Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight. Just two months ago he said that Hillary Clinton would be a great negotiator with Iran. And he gets his foreign policy experience from the shows.”

— Jeb Bush

112. “I’ve had a life experience that’s full of warts, full of successes.”

— Jeb Bush

113. “I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.”

— Jeb Bush

114. “I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border. It’s not – it’s our responsibility to pick and choose who comes in.”

— Jeb Bush

115. “America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in – often distant places.”

— Jeb Bush

116. “I kinda miss Donald Trump, he was a little teddy bear to me.”

— Jeb Bush

117. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

118. “As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.”

— Jeb Bush

119. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

120. “America still is an exceptional country. We love to lead and we love to win. And we do it, when we take on any challenge and when we take – we support our friends.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

122. “I’ve never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.”

— Jeb Bush

123. “To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I’ve seen him in an interview yet. And it’s not because I wasn’t asking him tough questions.”

— Jeb Bush

124. “Look, the FBI has the tools necessary un-American activities in our country. It goes on, we shouldn’t even be talking about it.”

— Jeb Bush

125. “What we have in Washington is total gridlock.”

— Jeb Bush

126. “I’m not a performer. If they’re looking for entertainer-in-chief, I’m probably not the guy.”

— Jeb Bush

127. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

128. “There’s a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

130. “We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That’s – that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

132. “The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it’s not filing an amendment and call it a success.”

— Jeb Bush

133. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

134. “We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.”

— Jeb Bush

135. “Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.”

— Jeb Bush

136. “Any time an elected official in the world we’re in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.”

— Jeb Bush

137. “We need a serious leader to deal with this. And I believe I’m that guy.”

— Jeb Bush

138. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

139. “Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren’t popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

141. “Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That’s the first and foremost thing that we need.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

143. “We need to embed our forces – our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.”

— Jeb Bush

144. “The idea that somehow we’re better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative universe. The simple fact is that the world has been torn asunder.”

— Jeb Bush

145. “Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he’s not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.”

— Jeb Bush

146. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

147. “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.”

— Jeb Bush

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

— Jeb Bush

149. “I don’t think there’s any Bush baggage at all.”

— Jeb Bush

150. “I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.”

— Jeb Bush