Jeb Bush Quotes

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

Nothing Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton did together will ever have as much impact on election results as the partisan makeup of congressional districts around the country.

Unfortunately it has come to pass that we choose our Presidents because of their vote-getting qualities in certain doubtful states rather than for their qualifications for the office they are to fill.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

If people are interested in changing the direction of the country, Iowa is the battleground.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.

There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.