Bruce Rauner Quotes

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

Scandal is an absolute nightmare in politics.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

I just know that on TV or off TV, I've been very much targeted and torn apart.

If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.

It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

People have already dirtied my name too much.