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“We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.”
“Those who value a strong safety net for our neediest citizens see that every extra dollar spent on these unions is a dollar that cannot go to help the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.”
“We have to be bold, tough, and fundamentally change government because Springfield is broken.”
“To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.”
“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.”
“Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.”
“I like to do things that get results. Results are all that matters.”
“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.”
“I don't care what the headline is. I want the results.”
“I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.”
“Big problems usually come from big sources.”
“Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.”
“I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.”
“State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.”
“I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.”
“I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.”