They could have led the charge to create a strategy to deal with ISIS and Assad, and they didn't, because it was not popular at the time. And then conditions change.

Jeb Bush

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Hey, don't start criticizing diet programs. Those aren't bad. by Jeb Bush

Hey, don't start criticizing diet programs. Those aren't bad.

I'm a big boy ... if you are a candidate, you can't play role of the victim, so I'm not going to do it. And he shouldn't do it either.

He asked me to support that bill and I said, 'yeah of course, this is what senators are supposed to do, forge consensus' ... and I supported that even though my ideas were different, marco cut and run, plain and simple, for whatever reason -- may be legitimate reasons but he cut and run.

I don't apologize for it because he is a jerk. by Jeb Bush

I don't apologize for it because he is a jerk.

You know big brothers always have to defer once in a while, but ultimately big brothers are still big brothers. You know what I mean?

I did that for a long while, not anymore. by Jeb Bush

I did that for a long while, not anymore.

I think he'll do it if it fits his schedule. He's been a big help, we're working on that right now. I don't know.

Donald Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. And you know who'd be hurt the most? Iowa agriculture, what does a country do when it gets thrown a 45% tariff? It retaliates. And who would it retaliate with? Agriculture, and the equipment and the technology that this great state has developed and has been sold to China. All of that is foolhardy.

I don't apologize for it because he is a jerk, he disparages POWs like John McCain, saying he's not a hero because he got caught. He's a jerk when he disparages women the way he does, and he is a jerk when he disparages people with disabilities. How are we going to win the presidency if we're tearing our country apart?

I'm, for one, not going to stand back when someone is advocating... by Jeb Bush

I'm, for one, not going to stand back when someone is advocating a global depression.

You know what, I've never understood this. For a guy who doesn't even know me, (he) just repeats it over and over again, it becomes the truth, it's the weirdest thing in the world. I just ran three miles on your beautiful beach before I came here and I had a full week. I work my tail off like I've done my entire adult life. I'm not bragging, that's just who I am. I love work. I think I do it with some energy.

If he wins, he will hijack the conservative cause, everyone running for president on the Republican side, as it relates to Donald Trump, is in the witness protection program.

I don't think about it, i just speak what I'm thinking, it's not organized probably as effective as it could be. I know people care about my family -- they love my brother, they love my dad and they love my mom. I don't go out of my way to talk about it, but it's part of who I am so -- it's does get a good response.

The country's better off that you're the speaker. by Jeb Bush

The country's better off that you're the speaker.

There are three things that will lift people out of poverty: work, marriage, and a high school education, at least, you do those three things and it gives you a giant leap forward in terms of the probabilities of being lifted out of poverty.

Look, any time that there's a crisis a tragedy, whether it's San Bernardino or these tragic mass killings by deranged people, the first impulse of the President of the United States and Hillary Clinton is to take more rights away from law-abiding citizens.

Well, um, I think I'm much better looking. by Jeb Bush

Well, um, I think I'm much better looking.

Look, Chris is a great guy. I don't think he could give you ... a record of accomplishment that compares to that.

I was (governor for) eight years in Florida, a purple state -- 500,000 more Democrats that Republicans -- where I applied conservative principles and reformed some big things that seldom are reformed.

I don't know, look, it wasn't that long ago that people wanted signatures on things, and now, forget that, 'I want my damn selfie. I'm not leaving until I get it,' So we spend a lot of quality time doing that.