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Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on January 24, 2016 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on January 21, 2016 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:

"90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States."

By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 in a GOP debate on CNN:

"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 in 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."

By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 in an interview on "Face the Nation":

"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."

By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 in 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."

By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on October 21, 2015 in a post on his website:

"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land."

By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate:

"When he (Donald Trump) asked Florida to have casino gambling, we said no."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • September 17, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on July 27, 2015 in a Telemundo News interview:

Says in 2002, he "won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state."

By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on April 10, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • April 15, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on March 13, 2015 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 in a speech in Detroit:

"Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether."

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 20, 2014 in a speech:

The Orange County, Florida, school board "voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50."

By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2014

Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 in 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."

By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014

Jeb Bush
stated on May 12, 2014 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • May 15, 2014

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