About Jeb Bush: John Ellis is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007.
If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.
If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.
I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.
Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.
The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.
In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.
There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.
You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.
You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?'
If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.
If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.
Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only ...
Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
