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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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
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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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Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for 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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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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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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It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
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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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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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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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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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Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
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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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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.
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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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I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.
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Crisis creates opportunity.
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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.