Bruce Rauner Quotes
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I don't care what the headline is. I want the results.
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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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Those who value a strong safety net for our neediest citizens see that every extra dollar spent on these unions is a dollar that cannot go to help the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable.
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I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.
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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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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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We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.
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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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I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.
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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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Big problems usually come from big sources.
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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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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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Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
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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 tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
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Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.
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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 don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
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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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In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.
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Crisis creates opportunity.
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There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.