Quotes by J. B. Pritzker - Page 2

Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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Pie
Adding
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Prepared
Reasonable
Trump
White House
Hillary
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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Investing
Entrepreneurs
Participate
Scratch
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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Destructive
Illinois
Silent
Agenda
Bigoted
Bruce
Donald
Governor
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Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
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Childhood
Crisis
Early Childhood
Economic
Economic Security
Long Term
Moral
Security
Urgent
Face
Early
Imperative
National
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Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
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Investment
Wealthy
World Class
Naturally
Operation
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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Earning
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Rise
Wage
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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Bargaining
Midst
Sight
Challenge
Negotiations
Opinions
Table
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There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.
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Backlash
Doubt
No Doubt
Raised
Alternative
Money People Way
Campaign
Elect
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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Foreign Policy
International Community
Iran
Nuclear
Objectives
Threat
Bringing
Ending
Law-Abiding
Pressing
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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Chicago
Venture
Capitalists
Entrepreneurs
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To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
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Harassment
Norm
Actively
Ending
Sexual
Pervasive
Participate
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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Focused
New World
Businesses
Ventures
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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Boundaries
Limits
Established
Constrained
Definition
New Technologies
Push
Startups
Technologies
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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Life Time Past
Governor
Past Time
Talks
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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Executives
Mom And Dad
Rooms
Selling
Mom Dad Mom And Dad
Ceos
Dad Mom Mom And Dad
Hotels
Persuade
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When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.
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Choices
Making A Difference
Resources
Who Cares
Cares
Difference
Hundreds
Literally
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Connections
Maintain
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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Holocaust
Illinois
Poignant
Trusted
Visitors
Center
Museum
Reminder
Schoolchildren
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Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.
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Decision
Type
Politicians
Heads
Inevitably
Issue
Item
Nod
Table
Tossed
Tough Decision
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To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
J. B. Pritzker /
Bedtime
Time Me Day
Nights
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Mornings
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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Budgets
Delivery
Elected Officials
Officials
Public Service
Unspoken
Balancing
Elected
Ensuring
Rarely
Services
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Betting
Dividends
Early Childhood
Health Care
Investment
Rate
Resources
Return
Young Children
Guaranteed
Pays
Supporting
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By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
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Agreement
Allowing
Conventional
Economic
Iran
Missiles
Nuclear
Pressure
Program
Sanctions
Weapons
Ballistic
Likely
Obtain
Prospect
Removing
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
J. B. Pritzker /
Candidates
Election
Trump
Work Money Will
Unlike
Oppose
Virtually
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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
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Admission
Endure
Harassment
Innuendo
Political
Touching
Unwanted
Life Men Women
Accept
Life Women Power
Career
Life Power Men
Life Power Women
Forced
Sexual
Political World
Positions
Price
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I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.
J. B. Pritzker /
Honored
Illinois
Joining
Letters
Resistance
Calls
Protests
Sending
Understands
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I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
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Acknowledge
Acknowledgment
Harassment
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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Balanced
Balanced Budget
Disagree
Folks
Proposal
Budget
Governor
Negotiate
Plate
Requirement
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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
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Courage
Acknowledgment
Chosen
Discrimination
Harassment
Changing
Communities
Conversations
Sexual
Larger
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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Cutting
Efficiency
Performing
Standards
Business Owner
Chase
Forces
Owner
Market Forces
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In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
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Shortcuts
Soccer
World Cup
Best Together World
Athletes
Cup
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It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.
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Diminish
Health Care
Illinois
Health Will Care
Actual
Expand
Governor
Policies
Stand Up
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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Early Childhood
Insight
Proven
Social Policy
Dollar
Identify
Imperative
Invested
Returns
Studies
Transform
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
J. B. Pritzker /
Northwestern
Accessible
Contribute
Enable
Expand
Fairer
Greatest Country
Personal Goals
Receive
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