Rauner Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

Bruce Rauner

#3. Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

William Wharton

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

Bruce Rauner

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so that's just the life. We've been playing with money since young.

Birdman

#8. Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President ... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.

Jon Stewart

#10. Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it,

Bruce Rauner

#11. 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

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

Bruce Rauner

#13. I'm well on my way to achieving my life-goal: to become an eccentric old woman.

Kate Rauner

#14. Unhappiness is such a heavy burden, those who carry it, when ever possible, unload it onto those around them.

Christopher Price

#15. To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

Bruce Rauner

#16. Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

Paul Allen

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

Bruce Rauner

#18. My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

Mason Cooley

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

Bruce Rauner

#20. A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.

Cameron Dokey

#21. There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

Natalie Zea

#22. This was a kaleidoscope of beauty, the dials spinning, ever changing, but never anything short of spectacular.

Kristen Ashley

#23. 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

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

Bruce Rauner

#25. Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Max Weber

#26. 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