Jeb Bush Quotes

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.

Having principles is important, but you don’t want to walk off a cliff with your principles.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I stick by my principles, and one of my principles is flexibility.

An ideologue believes that what is right will work. A pragmatist believes that what works is right.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.