John Kasich Quotes

America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.

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.

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.

I was not in favor of U.S. troops in Lebanon. And I voted against it.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

When there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called.

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left, and if you're a Republican you're worried about your base on the right.

I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

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.

Everybody who was involved in that culture [Wells Fargo] should be held accountable.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

We all have to be, as consumers of information and news, we have to be a little more circumspect. And let's not take everything in that gets fed to us.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

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.

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

I'm not a plotter or a schemer. I'm a guy that looks at problems and tries to solve them, which I have done all of my career, creating jobs in Washington, creating jobs in Ohio.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.

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.

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.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

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.

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.

I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up.

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.

I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.

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.

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.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

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.

Im a believer in bipartisanship.

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.

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.