Jeb Bush Quotes

Republicans will own Congress.

In our system today, many people don’t have to win general elections; they just have to win primaries.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

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

It has become a cliché that voters no longer choose their legislators. The legislators choose their voters.

Normally we would expect more seats in Congress to go to the political party that receives more votes, but the last election confounded expectations. Democrats received 1.4 million more votes for the House of Representatives, yet Republicans won control of the House by a 234 to 201 margin.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

Redistricting reform is one of the most important issues we can tackle.

Vibrant political parties are vital to the health of our democracy.

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

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

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.