Bruce Rauner Quotes
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Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average person doesn't know really what's going on in the pension system. They know their taxes are too high; they know we've got a deficit. But getting that message out and helping the people of Illinois really understand what's going on, that's hard.
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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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A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
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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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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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I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.
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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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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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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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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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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 don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
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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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I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
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Big problems usually come from big sources.
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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'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.
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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.
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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.