John Kasich Quotes

#1. I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career. - Author: John Kasich

#2. So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better. - Author: John Kasich

#3. I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington. - Author: John Kasich

#4. Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force. - Author: John Kasich

#5. We will strengthen our country when we come together. - Author: John Kasich

#6. You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that. - Author: John Kasich

#7. I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job. - Author: John Kasich

#8. I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs. - Author: John Kasich

#9. I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided. - Author: John Kasich

#10. Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics. - Author: John Kasich

#11. I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus. - Author: John Kasich

#12. So much of what we read and write these days is disposable. - Author: John Kasich

#13. I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope. - Author: John Kasich

#14. I'm going to love my daughters; I'm going to love them no matter what they do. Because, you know what, God gives me unconditional love. I'm going to give it to my family and my friends and the people around me. - Author: John Kasich

#15. The republican party is my vehicle, not my master. - Author: John Kasich

#16. We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals. - Author: John Kasich

#17. And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy. - Author: John Kasich

#18. Guess what? I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. - Author: John Kasich

#19. Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China. - Author: John Kasich

#20. When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead. - Author: John Kasich

#21. And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT. - Author: John Kasich

#22. First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe. - Author: John Kasich

#23. Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America. - Author: John Kasich

#24. I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave. - Author: John Kasich

#25. My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind. - Author: John Kasich

#26. A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. - Author: John Kasich

#27. And no one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was. - Author: John Kasich

#28. And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.' - Author: John Kasich

#29. America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours. - Author: John Kasich

#30. In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known. - Author: John Kasich

#31. People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them. - Author: John Kasich

#32. A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do. - Author: John Kasich

#33. For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it. - Author: John Kasich

#34. I don't understand this thing about [Bashar] Assad. He has to go. Assad is aligned with Iran and Russia. The one thing we want to prevent is we want to prevent Iran being able to extend a Shia crescent all across the Middle East. Assad has got to go. - Author: John Kasich

#35. There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting. - Author: John Kasich

#36. Nobody wants anybody who's radical, who wants to move in here to be able to gain access. I said we should take a pause on these Syrian migrants. And I believe we should do that. - Author: John Kasich

#37. Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose. - Author: John Kasich

#38. We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless. - Author: John Kasich

#39. Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands. - Author: John Kasich

#40. We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy. - Author: John Kasich

#41. I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. - Author: John Kasich

#42. If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them. - Author: John Kasich

#43. I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn't think the way I do, doesn't mean that I can't care about them or can't love them. - Author: John Kasich

#44. I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes. - Author: John Kasich

#45. I was not in favor of U.S. troops in Lebanon. And I voted against it. - Author: John Kasich

#46. I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy. - Author: John Kasich

#47. When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. - Author: John Kasich

#48. You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city. - Author: John Kasich

#49. My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing. - Author: John Kasich

#50. At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country. - Author: John Kasich

#51. If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that. - Author: John Kasich

#52. We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house. - Author: John Kasich

#53. I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War. - Author: John Kasich

#54. We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation. - Author: John Kasich

#55. I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up. - Author: John Kasich

#56. Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet. - Author: John Kasich

#57. I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm. - Author: John Kasich

#58. Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming. - Author: John Kasich

#59. But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come. - Author: John Kasich

#60. Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there. - Author: John Kasich

#61. There is a big problem. It's called encryption. And the people in San Bernardino were communicating with people who the FBI had been watching. But because their phone was encrypted, because the intelligence officials could not see who they were talking to, it was lost. - Author: John Kasich

#62. I would only go to Syria to destroy ISIS. I would not use U.S. troops to depose Assad. But I would support the rebels there. It's okay to support those people who share your view. But for the United States to be embroiled in a civil war in Syria against [Bashr] Assad I think is a big mistake. - Author: John Kasich

#63. You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting. - Author: John Kasich

#64. I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead. - Author: John Kasich

#65. God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate. - Author: John Kasich

#66. America is a miracle country. - Author: John Kasich

#67. Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system. - Author: John Kasich

#68. I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me. - Author: John Kasich

#69. I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say. - Author: John Kasich

#70. I can't work any harder. I can't do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they're working. I think they've got a sense that they're going to be part of something bigger than themselves. - Author: John Kasich

#71. Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal. - Author: John Kasich

#72. Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people. - Author: John Kasich

#73. Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is - is threatening their very families. - Author: John Kasich

#74. I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes. - Author: John Kasich

#75. We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have. - Author: John Kasich

#76. [Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there. - Author: John Kasich

#77. I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods. - Author: John Kasich

#78. Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself. - Author: John Kasich

#79. The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this - Author: John Kasich

#80. If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them. - Author: John Kasich

#81. In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth. - Author: John Kasich

#82. For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies. - Author: John Kasich

#83. The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected. - Author: John Kasich

#84. I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary. - Author: John Kasich

#85. We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided. - Author: John Kasich

#86. We've got to listen to other people's voices, respect them, but keep in mind, and I believe in terms of the things that I've read in my lifetime, the Lord is not picking us. But because of how we respect human rights, because that we are a good force in the world, he wants America to be strong. - Author: John Kasich

#87. There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts. - Author: John Kasich

#88. The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not. - Author: John Kasich

#89. We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems. - Author: John Kasich

#90. Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go. - Author: John Kasich

#91. Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. - Author: John Kasich

#92. I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this. - Author: John Kasich

#93. If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light. - Author: John Kasich

#94. A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems. - Author: John Kasich

#95. Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, they talk about Benghazi, which is very legitimate. Of course it is. But we should never have deposed [Muamar] Gaddafi. That was a terrible mistake. - Author: John Kasich

#96. I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage. - Author: John Kasich

#97. Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country. - Author: John Kasich

#98. I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism. - Author: John Kasich

#99. I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world. - Author: John Kasich

#100. I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country. - Author: John Kasich