Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Rauner

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Bruce Vincent Rauner is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his election, he was the chairman of R8 Capital Partners and chairman of the private equity firm GTCR, based in Chicago. The Republican nominee in the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election, he defeated Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn by 50.3% to 46.4%. In 2018, after narrowly surviving a challenge in the Republican primary from State Representative Jeanne Ives, Rauner lost the general election to Democratic challenger J. B. Pritzker in a landslide. As of 2022, Rauner and his lieutenant Evelyn Sanguinetti are the last Republicans to have held statewide office in Illinois.

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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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Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

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We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

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I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

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I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.

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Those who want low taxes and healthy job creation know that an unnecessary dollar going to these unions is a dollar that cannot reduce the tax burden on homeowners, small businesses, and job creators.

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Our government workers 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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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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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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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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Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

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Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

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Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

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Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.

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I am going to try to rip the economic guts out of Indiana. But we're going to do it methodically and aggressively.

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I'll be willing to do things that politicians won't do. Because I don't care who I upset.

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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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We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

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To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

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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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We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.

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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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Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

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I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.

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Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

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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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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

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I certainly don't need a job. Getting re-elected is not on my Top 10 list.

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If Republicans and Democrats commit to working together, we can reach a bipartisan, common-sense agreement to reverse Illinois' economic decline and set the stage for a bright economic future.

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Big problems usually come from big sources.

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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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When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.

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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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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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The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.

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Government employees deserve to be treated fairly, but they do not deserve a significantly better deal than average Illinoisans get in their own jobs.

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I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.

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The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

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I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

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Illinois has every reason to succeed. We have the hardest-working people in America, the best infrastructure in America, and the best location of any state.

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I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

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I just want the state fixed, and I just want to do the right thing for the taxpayers.

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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.

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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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Crisis creates opportunity.

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I like to do things that get results. Results are all that matters.

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If yelling and threatening, intimidating and chanting solved problems, Illinois wouldn't have any problems. We're good at that stuff.

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The government union bosses are the most powerful politicians in Springfield.

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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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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.

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I'm not anti-union.

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We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

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Crisis creates leverage to change.

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These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.

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For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

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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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Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.

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I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... a leader who can drive things.

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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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Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Rauner

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