Quotes from Jeb Bush

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

America still is an exceptional country. We love to lead and we love to win. And we do it, when we take on any challenge and when we take - we support our friends.

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

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.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

I do a lot of traveling overseas.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.

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

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we're in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.