Jeb Bush Quotes

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

[Hillary] Clinton, we are not where we need to be in the fight against ISIS.

Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

Exert the greatest vigilance in discovering and defeating any British attempt to take over California.

I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest.

If the U.S. wants to destroy ISIS, it can destroy ISIS. We won't end terrorism around the world. But we can destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Prominent generals are telling us that. Prominent national-security strategists are telling us that. So let's do it.

I argued for a wartime moratorium on new visas and new immigrants because of the substantial danger of ISIS terrorists infiltrating our system.

I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.

Do I disagree that we need to ban all Muslims from entering the country? Yes, I disagree with that strongly.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

If we're going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?

Whenever they asked me the question about what are you going to do about ISIS, I say, you know, I have a real chance of winning. I don't really want to tell you. I have very strong ideas and I'll be dealing with the people in this room and other folks that are, you know, very good at this, but the last thing you want to do is give notice to the enemy.

If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

I heard Katty Kay's name and I know Katty Kay said we didn't have a plan. Well, there is a plan, and the President [Barack Obama] is moving forward with any number of options and ways to augment our efforts on ISIL.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

As part of my pledge to restore safety for the American people, I have also directed the defense community to develop a plan to totally obliterate ISIS. Working with our allies, we will eradicate this evil from the face of the Earth.

I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the cruise missiles in to take out bin Laden. I had thought we had the right to use Special Forces to go in for bin Laden. He had attacked American embassies. He attacked ships. And so, I didn't see any need to coddle the Taliban.

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.