Steve Rauschenberger Quotes (8 Quotes)

I've been a negotiator all my life - selling furniture is really helping people make decisions. Now I've got pretty strong respect in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle because the work I've done over the years on the budget, giving and taking, ultimately winning decisions.

After three years of declaring war on middle class families in Illinois, Gov. Blagojevich is now in full pander mode.

What he's going to do I think is stretch out the payment cycle. What he's going to do is essentially make the providers of the state of Illinois pay for it by paying them more re-imbursements and more slowly.

We've had on the books programs in Illinois where children could join the health care program of their parents, and go to the same doctors and have the same kind of health care. It's too bad this governor couldn't implement any of those programs for the last three years.

The implementation of the streamlined agreement will allow states to recoup valuable resources that can, in turn, be put toward education, public safety, tax relief, or other pressing state needs.

This administration has hypnotized some of the leadership in the active teachers unions by saying somehow we'll recover later. But the way this administration spends, we're not recovering anything at all.

I was hopeful Ron would promote the team more strongly. He spent a lot of time on TV, but the problem was I was only in about 2-12 weeks of commercials.

You don't raise 15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.