Quotes by Bruce Rauner - Page 2

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Diligence
Homework
Waste
Buyer
Due
Disciplined
Investor
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State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Administrative
Broken
Bureaucracy
Illinois
Microcosm
State Government
Universities
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We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Safety
Ensuring
Refugees
Welcoming
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Chanting
Illinois
Intimidating
Threatening
Yelling
Solved
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Illinois
Minimum
Wages
Economically
Focusing
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Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Ability
Dedication
Discipline
Empathy
Intellectual
Interpersonal
Talent
Teaching
Incredible
Requires
Skill
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Burden
Corporations
Freeze
Income
Income Tax
Property Taxes
Tax Burden
Reduce
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Elected Officials
Funding
Limits
Officials
Property
Property Taxes
Reducing
Taxes
Term Limits
Elected
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Failing
Illinois
Views
Opinions
Transform
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Bottom
Bottom Line
Ceo
Critical
Driven
Results
State Government
Benefit
Teams
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Deserve
Fairly
Employees
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Illinois
Infrastructure
Location
Best People America
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Competitiveness
Crime
Growth
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Poverty
Productivity
Unemployment
Education Great Growth
Face
Challenge
Component
Major
Solution
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Bargaining
Expenditures
Lobbying
Officials
Public Officials
Campaign
Donations
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Decent
Retirement
Fairly
Works
Retire
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Decent
Government Workers
Retirement
Workers
Fairly
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Elderly
Safety
Safety Net
Dollar
Extra
Net
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Bipartisan
Commit
Decline
Illinois
Working Together
Bright
Democrats
Economic Future
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Convincing
Selling
Time Change Good
Big Change
Change Time Good
Good Thing
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Economic Freedom
Fixed
Illinois
No Problem
Freedom Believe I Believe
Crushing
Passionately
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I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Illinois
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Competitive
Hurting
Wage
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Burden
Creation
Job Creation
Job Creators
Tax Burden
Unnecessary
Dollar
Reduce
Small Businesses
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I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Chicago
Education Reform
Engaged
Helping
Illinois
Reform
Activities
Businesses
Education Time Long
Civic
Entrepreneurs
Mostly
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Confined
Nursing
Profession
Chose
Talented
Options
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The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Freedom
Government
Choices
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Mud
Attacked
Politics Time Family
Dragged
Politics Family Time
Talked
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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.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Average Person
Deficit
Helping
Illinois
Pension
Workers
Your People Person
People Your Person
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