Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... a leader who can drive things.
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.
When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.
Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.
Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
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.
To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.
Big problems usually come from big sources.
Those who want low taxes and healthy job creation know that an unnecessary dollar going to these unions is a dollar that cannot reduce the tax burden on homeowners, small businesses, and job creators.
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.
The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.
We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.
Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.
Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.
I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.
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.
I like to do things that get results. Results are all that matters.
