I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

One program that has seen fruition is the Florida Virtual School a distance-learning program that allows students in rural areas of the state to take Advanced Placement classes for college credit. Bush oversaw 21 executions as Governor (more than Graham Martinez and Chiles while they were in office). Following in the footsteps of older brother George Jeb Bush attended high school at the private Massachusetts boarding school Phillips Academy Andover.

Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush; the younger brother of former President George W. W. Bush; and the older brother of Neil Bush Marvin Bush and Dorothy Bush Koch.