We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

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

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

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.

Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.