Bruce Rauner Quotes
I'll be willing to do things that politicians won't do. Because I don't care who I upset.
Rauner, Bruce. "Campaign Stop." Citizens for Rauner, 22 Oct. 2014.
He gave as an example, Churchill’s activities in the 1930s when he became not very unpopular even in his own party for telling people what they did not want to hear but needed to hear.
There is probably not another politician in America who thinks this way, and this may be why he is one of the best mayors in the world if not the best. However, Bloomberg was a very wealthy man and didn’t have to raise money for campaigns and therefore didn’t ever worry if he upset or angered important (wealthy) people.
Bruce Vincent Rauner is an American businessman, philanthropist and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his election, he was the chairman of R8 Capital Partners and chairman of the private equity firm GTCR, based in Chicago. The Republican nominee in the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election, he defeated Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn by 50.3% to 46.4%. In 2018, after narrowly surviving a challenge in the Republican primary from State Representative Jeanne Ives, Rauner lost the general election to Democratic challenger J. B. Pritzker in a landslide.
