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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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The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.
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Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?
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We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
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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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You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
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To honor the people that died, we need to stop the Iran agreement, for sure, because the Iranian mullahs have their blood on their hands, and we need to take out ISIS with every tool at our disposal.
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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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If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.
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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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There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.
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It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.
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Serious times require strong leadership.
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Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.
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Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.
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Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.
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I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
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This is a tough business to run for president.
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You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.
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