John Kasich Quotes

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

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.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

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.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

God gives me unconditional love. I'm going to give it to my family and my friends and the people around me.

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.

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].

Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.

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.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

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.

We will strengthen our country when we come together.

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.

America is a miracle country.

Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

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.

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.

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.

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.

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.

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.

(God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

Never in my lifetime have I been called boring. But I think I was a boring candidate for president because I tried to be responsible. And one of the greatest problems I had is that I was governor.

If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.

Leaders have to lead.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

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.

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

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.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.

Somebody tells me no, they're not going to keep telling me no, because I'm going to bother them to the point where it's a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

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.