Quotes By Jeb Bush

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

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.

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

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.

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.

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

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

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

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I have a blessed life.

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

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

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

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

I would say national security is work in progress.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

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.