Quotes from Jeb Bush

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.

It's a volatile time.

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

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

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.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

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.

A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.

We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.

I have a blessed life.

If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

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

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

I will support the Republican nominee.

I support high academic standards. Period.

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

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 we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

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