Explore Quotes by Jeb Bush

I'm fairly accessible.

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

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.

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

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

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

It's a volatile time.

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

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

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 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.

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.

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.