“Ideas matter, policy matters.”

—  Jeb Bush

Concession speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jeb-bush-suspends-2016-campaign/2016/02/20/d3a7315a-d721-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html (20 February 2016).
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American politician, former Governor of Florida 1953

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