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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
Jeb Bush
We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.
Jeb Bush
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
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I think life is precious from beginning to end.
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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
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I miss being governor.
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We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.
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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.
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Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.
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I would say national security is work in progress.
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You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch.
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Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
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Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.
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I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
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Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.
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I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.
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If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
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I don't miss politics.
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.
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Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
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If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.
Jeb Bush
I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.
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My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.
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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.
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We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.
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There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.
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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.
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I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.
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It's a volatile time.
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
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Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.
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I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
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I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
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We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.
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I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'
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If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.
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States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
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It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
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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.
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I'm fairly accessible.
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Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
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Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
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I want my voice to have purpose.
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I think the voters can make up their own minds.
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It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
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You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
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I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
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If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By blaming others we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
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As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
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My record as a pro-life governor is not in dispute. I am completely pro-life, and I believe that we should have a culture of life. It's informed by my faith from beginning to end. And this not just as it related to unborn babies - I did it at the end of life issues as well. This is something that goes way beyond politics.
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I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
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I have a blessed life.
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Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
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I'm comfortable with the life I have.
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I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
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I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
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I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.
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I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.
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Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
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I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
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I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.
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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.
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Immigrants are more fertile.
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I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
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I do a lot of traveling overseas.
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I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.
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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.
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I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.
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Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.
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I support high academic standards. Period.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'
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I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.
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The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
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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.
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I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
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I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
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My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.
Jeb Bush
I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.
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