Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bushis an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 February 1953
CityMidland, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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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 loved being governor. It was a blast. Eight years was enough. But it was certainly one of the greatest thrills in my life to be able to serve the people of Florida. I miss that from time to time.
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If you want gridlock in Washington,then I'm probably not your guy because I'm running a campaign to say I can fix these things because I did it as governor. I have 32 years of business experience and eight years as governor.
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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.
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I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people.
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I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.
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I'm very confident that we will have a system that will focus on health rather than on sickness, ... We're changing the dynamics of the Medicaid marketplace.
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In all likelihood it will hit our state,
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I know the president has deep concerns about what has happened, ... And the fact that I'm his brother, symbolically, may give some people a sense that the president really does care, as he does.
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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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That is very good news for Floridians because rhetorically they've been opposed to tax cuts over the last seven years, ... For every one letter that apparently I get suggesting I should cut taxes, we'll have 200 press releases criticizing me for doing so.
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These three individuals are proven leaders with the right balance of skills and knowledge to serve Florida's communities,
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Not making a good-faith effort to implement this after the state has voted and Broward County has voted, to have it be back on the ballot I think is wrong, ... Having said that, you could implement it and then put it back on the ballot -- another constitutional amendment -- and that would be fair game.
I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.