Top 100 Kasich's Quotes
#1. I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.
Hugh Hewitt
#2. I fully support Governor Kasich's-I think it's called 'Question 2' in Ohio. Fully support that. In fact, on my website as far back as April I laid out I supported 'Question 2.' ... I support it 110%.
Mitt Romney
#3. 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.
John Kasich
#4. [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.
John Kasich
#5. 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.
John Kasich
#6. Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.
John Kasich
#7. 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.
John Kasich
#8. 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.
John Kasich
#9. 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
John Kasich
#10. If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.
John Kasich
#11. The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.
Mark Shields
#12. He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
John Kasich
#13. In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.
John Kasich
#14. The people of Ohio are not happy with what he's doing. I can tell you that. They're not happy with what [John Kasich] is doing. But the Republican Party more than any other thing has to have a victory, a presidential victory, for one thing, if nothing else: Supreme Court justices.
Donald Trump
#15. Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.
John Kasich
#16. When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
John Kasich
#17. 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.
John Kasich
#18. 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.
John Kasich
#19. 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.
John Kasich
#20. People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep the people of my state safe. So we take a pause [in taking refugees].
John Kasich
#21. I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.
John Kasich
#22. We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.
John Kasich
#23. 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.
John Kasich
#24. 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.
John Kasich
#25. 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.
John Kasich
#26. I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.
John Kasich
#27. Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.
Newt Gingrich
#28. America is a miracle country. And we have to restore the sense that the Amiracle (ph) will apply to you. Each and every one of the people in this country who's watching tonight, lift everybody, unite everybody and build a stronger United States of America again. It will be and can be done.
John Kasich
#29. 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.'
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.
John Kasich
#31. 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.
John Kasich
#32. 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.
John Kasich
#33. The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.
John Kasich
#34. 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.
John Kasich
#35. I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].
John Kasich
#36. I was not in favor of U.S. troops in Lebanon. And I voted against it.
John Kasich
#37. 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.
John Kasich
#38. A friend asked one of my daughters, "Do you like politics?" And my daughter said, "No, I don't. And the reason I don't like it is because there's too much fighting, too much yelling. It's so loud, I don't like it." You know, I turned to my friend and I said, "You know, she's really on to something."
John Kasich
#39. In the course of his ongoing crusade for Medicaid expansion, Ohio governor John Kasich has suggested that Ronald Reagan, Saint Peter, and God Himself all would support his plan to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
Edwin Meese
#41. Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.
John Kasich
#42. I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.
John Kasich
#43. 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.
John Kasich
#44. 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.
John Kasich
#45. The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.
John Kasich
#46. I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.
John Kasich
#47. We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.
John Kasich
#48. 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.
John Kasich
#49. 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.
John Kasich
#50. You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.
Mara Liasson
#51. Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.
John Kasich
#52. 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.
John Kasich
#53. In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.
John Kasich
#54. The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
John Kasich
#55. 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.
John Kasich
#56. 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.
John Kasich
#57. Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.
Tom Ridge
#58. You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.
John Kasich
#59. 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.
John Kasich
#60. God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.
John Kasich
#62. I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.
John Kasich
#63. 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.
John Kasich
#64. 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.
John Kasich
#65. When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'
John Kasich
#66. 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.
John Kasich
#67. 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.
John Kasich
#68. If one of my daughters happened to be [gay], of course I would love them and I would accept them.That's what we're taught when we have strong faith.
John Kasich
#69. 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.
John Kasich
#70. Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is - is threatening their very families.
John Kasich
#71. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"
Hugh Hewitt
#72. 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.
John Kasich
#73. We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.
John Kasich
#74. Ohio Governor John Kasich became the 16th Republican to announce that he is running for president. During his speech he referred to Jesus Christ, which is ironic because so did Americans when they heard another Republican was running for president.
Jimmy Fallon
#75. 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.
John Kasich
#76. Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.
John Kasich
#77. 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.
John Kasich
#78. Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
John Kasich
#79. 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.
John Kasich
#80. 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.
John Kasich
#81. A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.
John Kasich
#82. You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down
Abraham Lincoln said it.
John Kasich
#83. 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.
John Kasich
#84. I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.
John Kasich
#85. John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done.
Rob Portman
#86. Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.
John Kasich
#87. I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.
John Kasich
#88. 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.
John Kasich
#89. Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.
John Kasich
#90. 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.
John Kasich
#91. We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.
John Kasich
#92. 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.
John Kasich
#93. We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.
John Kasich
#94. I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up.
John Kasich
#95. 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.
John Kasich
#96. It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.
John Kasich
#97. 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.
John Kasich
#98. Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.
John Kasich
#99. 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.
John Kasich
#100. Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.
John Kasich
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