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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 24, 2016 a post on Medium
"My two appointments to the Florida Supreme Court, Raul Cantero and Kenneth Bell, have earned reputations as its most consistent conservatives."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 21, 2016 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor
"90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States."
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By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN
"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on 'This Week'
"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."
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By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 a speech at the Citadel
For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."  
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By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."
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By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 comments on "Meet the Press"
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."  
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By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 21, 2015 a post on his website
"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land."
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By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate
"When he (Donald Trump) asked Florida to have casino gambling, we said no."
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By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • September 17, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 27, 2015 a Telemundo News interview
Says in 2002, he "won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando
Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."
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By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters
"There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."
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By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 10, 2015 a speech to the NRA
Florida has the most concealed weapon permits in the nation, "nearly double that of the second state, which is Texas."
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By Amy Sherman • April 15, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 13, 2015 a business roundtable in New Hampshire
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."
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By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit
"Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 20, 2014 a speech
The Orange County, Florida, school board "voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50."
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By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal"
"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
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By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 12, 2014 a speech at the Manhattan Institute
"U.S. teenagers have now fallen behind their counterparts in Ireland, Poland and even Vietnam in math and science."
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By Amy Sherman • May 15, 2014
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