I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

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.

The philosophies and positions and principles of the nominee are not just conservative, they are ultra-conservative.

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

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

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