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I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Made
Mistake
Ownership
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When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Campaigns
Looks
Campaign
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A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
People
Positive Change
Worried
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A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Positive
Positive Change
Worried
Change Politics People
Instead
Re-Elected
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Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Blessed
Ethics
Work Ethic
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I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Blessed
Great Things
Work Ethic
Life Work Great
Ethic
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It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Children
Environment
Five
Grandchildren
Involved
Six
Trying
Years
Better Children More
Local
Local Level
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After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Decided
Discussions
Great Deal
Intended
Seek
Re-Election
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South Jersey is home to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, one of the finest military installations in the world, and it was my honor to represent the base and all of those who serve there.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Finest
Honor
Jersey
Base
Represent
Joint
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I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Approach
Congress
Feeding
Life Sports Always
Background
Team Sports
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I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn't had one from the Eagles. I had to think, 'I've really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis?
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
New York
Eagles
Thinking
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I tell you how I feel and how we're going to solve it. That's my unique personality and that's how I carry myself. It is different from most people, but when something comes out of your mouth, people tend to listen more.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Unique
Carry
Mouth
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Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Agendas
Congress
Members
Advance
Base
Donor
Expand
Unfortunately
Govern
Interests
Serve
Strategies
Whose
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People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Different Things
Smart
Tired
Totally
All My Life
Life Tired Me
Challenged
Definition
Fast
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People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Raising Taxes
Taxes
First Thing
Increasing
No Experience
Raising
The First Thing
Yes
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When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Ambition
Eagles
Jersey
Philadelphia
Public Service
Signing
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The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.
Jon Runyan / U.s. Representative
Future
Debt
Deeper
Digging
Generations
Giving
Helping
Spending
Totally
Affecting
Quite
Anybody
Biggest
Doing
Frankly
Future Generations
Hole
Quite Frankly
Tackle
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