Jeb Bush Quotes
I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
Bush, Jeb. Interview by Al Hunt. Bloomberg Television, 13 June 2012.
The great irony was that under the British, government of India, including the Pakistan area was quite good. However, after independence, India developed democratic government and is improving its governance to where it is almost good government. Pakistan, in marked contrast, had a democracy when Independence was attained and quickly fell into one dictatorship after another. And none of the governments came close to being good Government. Pakistan has a very corrupt and incompetent government—both military and civilian. However, at the time this quotation was made, the leaders of Pakistan were hopeful about and committed to good and democratic government. But neither ever happened.
Marshall was Army Chief of Staff at the time. Actually it was the OSS—the precursor to the CIA—that accepted the job of the assassination of Werner Heisenberg, the best physicist left in Germany after so many had escaped from the dictatorship. However, the agent who was to do the assassination made the judgment from actually talking with him and reading all his scientific papers that he was not working on an atomic bomb and really didn’t know of a lot of the critical research that was ongoing. He let the scientist live, and later investigations showed that the agent, Moe Berg, was absolutely right. Neither Heisenberg nor any other German scientists were working on atomic energy. The Germans had put all their scientific eggs in the rocket and jet plane basket.
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former President George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development, and in 1986 became Florida's Secretary of Commerce until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.
