I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.

I am going to try to rip the economic guts out of Indiana. But we're going to do it methodically and aggressively.

I'm not anti-union.

We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

If yelling and threatening, intimidating and chanting solved problems, Illinois wouldn't have any problems. We're good at that stuff.

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

Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average person doesn't know really what's going on in the pension system. They know their taxes are too high; they know we've got a deficit. But getting that message out and helping the people of Illinois really understand what's going on, that's hard.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

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.

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.

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.

Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip - blockchain and crypto is the fourth.

Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.