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Jeb Bush
stated on April 6, 2017 in an op-ed:

"When public schools face increased competition, they get better and kids learn more."

By Lola Duffort • April 17, 2017

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 February 2, 2016 in an appearance at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.:

The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up."

By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on December 28, 2015 in remarks at a Florida campaign stop:

"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."

By Emma Hinchliffe • January 15, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on January 14, 2016 in the Fox Business Network debate:

Says Hillary Clinton "is under investigation with the FBI right now."

By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on January 4, 2016 in a column posted on Medium:

"As governor of Florida, I used a combination of strategies to help reduce heroin use among youth in Florida by approximately 50 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 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 24, 2015 in a radio interview in New Hampshire:

Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."

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 11, 2015 in Atlantic, Iowa, during a campaign event.:

Says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office.

By Jason Noble • November 23, 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 October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"My plan actually gives the middle class the greatest break: $2,000 per family."

By Joshua Gillin • November 5, 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 14, 2015 in a town hall meeting in Concord, N.H.:

"If you're born poor, you're more likely to stay poor than any time in American history."

By Nick Reid • October 30, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on October 28, 2015 in the CNBC GOP presidential debate:

"In Florida, we have the lowest in-state tuition of any state."

By Amy Sherman • October 30, 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

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