Bruce Rauner Quotes
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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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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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Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.
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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
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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 am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.
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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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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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Big problems usually come from big sources.
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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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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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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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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 tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
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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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Crisis creates opportunity.
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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 don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.