Jeb Bush Quotes

If you were a Rockefeller, wouldn’t you be?.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

…the transmission of…property from generation to generation in the same name raised up a distinct set of families who, being privileged by law in the perpetuation of their wealth were thus formed into a Patrician order.

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

Salome's of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she's going to get.

The result of being a Kennedy is that I have extraordinary opportunities that I wouldn't otherwise have.

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.'

Rich people march on Washington every day.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

Politics is the only profession where there's life after death.

I have several times suggested that what I call the “Establishment” in this country is today more powerful than ever before. By “Establishment” I do not mean only the centers of official power – though they are certainly part of it – but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised ... the “Establishment” can be seen at work in the activities of, not only the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl Marshal, but of such lesser mortals as the Chairman of the Arts Council, the Director-General of the BBC, and even the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, not to mention dignitaries like Lady Violet Bonham Carter.

George W. Bush was born on third base and somehow got the idea that he hit a triple.

In what then does real power consist? The answer is short and plain—in property.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…