Words matter. These are the best J. B. Pritzker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Let’s help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was ’93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
To me, the special parts of the day – and also the ones that fit with a full-time job – are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
When you’re someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.
Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn’t win.
When I’m governor, we’re not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump’s destructive and bigoted agenda.
Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn’t mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what’s right.
Trump is an anathema to America’s democracy and values.
The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt – a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it – is instructive.
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I’m making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
We like to invest in market leaders.
If you’re governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
I have been fighting to protect women’s healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
Let’s remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
There’s a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood – that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
Small ideas won’t help Illinois’ future.
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
I’m an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one’s over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
Whatever you build, you’re building for the family – not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
When you’re governor, you’ve got to step up to the plate; you’ve got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That’s the requirement. And then you’ve got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
There are not ‘many sides’ in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
I’ve been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it’s about the first item tossed from the table.
There’s no doubt that there’s a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don’t think the only alternative is to elect people with money.
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It’s past time for all his talk. It’s time for action. It’s what I’ve been doing my whole life.
It’s important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
I’m running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.
I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
Great success doesn’t come in short periods of time.
You know why I’m running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
I come with bad genetics, personally.
Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It’s about putting people over profits.
We’re trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise… that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
