Jon Runyan Quotes & Sayings

“I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.”

“I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.”

“I tell you how I feel and how we're going to solve it. That's my unique personality and that's how I carry myself. It is different from most people, but when something comes out of your mouth, people tend to listen more.”

“People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.”

“I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.”

“The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.”

“When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.”

“It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.”

“A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.”

“After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.”