Quotes from Jeb Bush

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

I don't miss politics.

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

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

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

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

Serious times require strong leadership.

What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

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.

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

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.

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

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

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

I released 34 years of tax returns and 300,000 e-mails in my government record. To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI.