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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.

Jeb Bush

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Jeb Bush
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: February 11
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If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.
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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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I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.
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I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that's kind of where we are.
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I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.
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Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.
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Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.
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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. It's not - it's our responsibility to pick and choose who comes in.
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I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.
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We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.
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I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.
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If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.
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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.
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I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.
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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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I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
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If we`re going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.
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I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science. ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.
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