Bruce Rauner Quotes
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Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
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Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.
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I don't care what the headline is. I want the results.
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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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Crisis creates opportunity.
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I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.
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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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It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
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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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State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
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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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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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We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.
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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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We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
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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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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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Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.