Top 55 Jeb Bush Quotes

You focus on the things that you can control, and that’s what I’m doing.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing… It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

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

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

I don’t think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it’s the old white guy party.

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

You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.

Being against other people’s policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It’s fine to be principled and oppose views that you don’t agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

In a divided government, you can’t just say, ‘It’s my way or the highway.’

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

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

I don’t miss politics.

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.

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

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 the voters can make up their own minds.

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.

I miss being governor.

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

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.

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

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.’

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it’s going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up – thanks to your help and a lot of others.

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

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

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.

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.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics’ English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups’.

It’s important to build trust if you’re trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

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.

My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don’t want a political wife – I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.

I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

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.

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.

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?

I’m a conservative – a practicing one. I’m not a talk-about-it one.

There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that’s why it’s called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

We’ve created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we’re not growing fast, income is not growing.

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices – public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.

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?’

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

If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams – not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

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

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

It’s been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it’s not fair or true.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I’ll take it. I guess I’m part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I’ll take that, too.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

I want my voice to have purpose.

I’ve been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

I have a blessed life in so many ways.

I think my dad’s post-presidency, he didn’t miss a beat. He didn’t get into any kind of ‘Woe is me.’ He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.