Bruce Rauner Quotes
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A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
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I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.
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Frankly, I would never ask a supporter to bet big on me if I wouldn't bet big on myself. It wouldn't be fair.
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For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.
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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
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We've talked through the fact that our family will be attacked. Our family will be dragged through the mud. My businesses that I've helped build and create will be attacked and dragged through the mud. That's politics. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it or thinking about it.
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I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
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Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.
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I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.
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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.
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It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
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State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
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We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.
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I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.
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Crisis creates opportunity.
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The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.
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Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
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I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
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I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.
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Big problems usually come from big sources.
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Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
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Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.
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Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.