84 Quotes by Bruce Rauner

Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.

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.

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

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.

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

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

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

We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.