Bruce Rauner Quotes
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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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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
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I don't care what the headline is. I want the results.
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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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Crisis creates opportunity.
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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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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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It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.