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Jeb Bush Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“I'm a grinder. I show dogged determination each and every day.”
— Jeb Bush, Full Transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Jeb Bush
Tagged: Working Hard
“I put a human context around the things that I believed.”
— Jeb Bush, Full Transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Jeb Bush
Tagged: Understanding
“The greatest joy I have—and you hit on it—it's not to govern. It's to serve.”
— Jeb Bush, Full Transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Jeb Bush
Tagged: Serving Others, What Leadership Is
“If you can't walk on the hot coals and weather whatever the storms are, you're probably not deserving of being president.”
— Jeb Bush, Full Transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Jeb Bush
Tagged: President, Leadership
“I am who I am. I haven't changed.”
— Jeb Bush, Full Transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Jeb Bush
Tagged: Staying the Same, Keeping Your Identity
“When immigration policy is working right, it is like a hydroelectric dam: a sturdy wall whose valves allow torrents of water to pour through, creating massive amounts of dynamic energy. The reservoir that supplies the power is full and constantly replenishing. The valves can be adjusted against the wall of water on the outside, easing the pressure or holding it back as necessary, but always allowing ample flow to meet the nation’s energy needs.”
— Jeb Bush, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution
Tagged: Immigration, Immigration Metaphors
“We can't be paralyzed in place and that's where we are today.”
— Jeb Bush, Transcript: NPR News Interview With Jeb Bush
Tagged: Paralysis
“I think people are tired of the yipping and yapping going on here, and they want someone to actually begin to solve problems.”
— Jeb Bush, Transcript: NPR News Interview With Jeb Bush
Tagged: Politics, Washington gridlock
“Why should that family that's been patiently waiting not get a better deal than someone who crossed the border illegally?”
— Jeb Bush, Transcript: NPR News Interview With Jeb Bush
Tagged: Politics, Immigration In America, Law and Order
“You cannot disparage women, people of disabilities, Mexican-Americans, POWs, Muslims — it's not a strategy for victory, it's a strategy to maintain this divisive kind of culture we're in right now.”
— Jeb Bush, Transcript: NPR News Interview With Jeb Bush
Tagged: Politics, Toxic Culture, Making Fun Of People
“We're living in this reality TV political environment.”
— Jeb Bush, Transcript: NPR News Interview With Jeb Bush
Tagged: Politics
“The two core principles we advocate—an efficient, workable system that recognizes the vital importance of immigration, coupled with genuine adherence to the rule of law—can form the foundation not only for bipartisan accord, but for sound and enduring public policy.”
— Jeb Bush, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution
Tagged: Immigration In America
“Ideas matter.”
— Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush Suspends Campaign. Jeb Bush Drops Out of the Presidential Race
Tagged: Ideas, Thought, Thinking
“The American The American immigration experience is the most aspirational story ever told. experience is the most aspirational story ever told.”
— Jeb Bush, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution
Tagged: Immigration, The United States of America
“America is a country that thinks big, acts boldly, and leads without apology.”
— Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush Suspends Campaign. Jeb Bush Drops Out of the Presidential Race
Tagged: The United States of America, No Apologies
“So the choice we face is whether to summon the courage to give rise to an era of new possibility or to indulge this new age of cynicism.”
— Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush’s big speech: What he said, and what he meant
Tagged: Binary Choices, Decisions
“In spite of your unfairness as a journalist and your evil ways, I like your spunk!”
— Jeb Bush, Reply All
Tagged: Politics & Journalists
“I don’t agree that Florida is a second rate state.”
— Jeb Bush, Reply All
Tagged: Florida
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