Quotes from Bruce Rauner

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.

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

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.

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

I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

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

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.

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

I've got to pick my fights at the right time.

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.

I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.

We have to be bold, tough, and fundamentally change government because Springfield is broken.

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

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.

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

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

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

I don't care what the headline is. I want the results.

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.

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.

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.