Bruce Rauner Quotes
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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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Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.
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I don't care what the headline is. I want the results.
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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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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
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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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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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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've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.
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Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
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Big problems usually come from big sources.
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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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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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It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
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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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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.
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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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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.
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I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.
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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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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.