Quotes from Bruce Rauner

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.

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.

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

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

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

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

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

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.

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

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

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

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.

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

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Big problems usually come from big sources.

We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

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

I like to spend money on investments.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

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

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

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.