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Ohio Gov. John Kasich

John Richard Kasich Jr. is an American politician, author and former television news host serving as the 69th and current Governor of Ohio. Elected governor in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, Kasich is a Republican.

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This is a low probability event and I don’t see anything right now that indicates a high chance that it will change immediately. But a lot is happening.

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There was never a chance of that, there was never ever, ever any consideration.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Are you kidding me? Of course, we have to deal with entitlements.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think we're going to go to a convention -- which is really an extension of the political process -- and when we get there, the delegates are going to think about two things: No. 1, who can win in the fall? And I was glad to hear Lindsey (Graham) say 'Kasich's the best general election candidate' because I don't think the other two can win, and secondly -- now this is a crazy idea -- who actually could be president of the United States and do a good job? When the delegates think about that, I think we will do very well and we will go to the convention with momentum.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't think that kind of language is appropriate, to talk about violence and rioting. I know you don't. It's inappropriate. I'll also tell you the threats on Donald Trump's family are outrageous. They have no right to be threatening his family, so why doesn't everyone just realize we're better in America when we're together and we're unified. And if you go to a convention and you lose, be a big enough person to say, 'I gave it my best and I didn't win.' That's what I would say if I didn't.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It's about pulling us together, not pulling us apart.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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Be for me, i've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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My people aren't like robots -- you know, go do this, go do that.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

You can go into a room and get people depressed and down and angry, or you can walk into that same room with people and give them hope.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I will win Ohio. encyclopedia.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

People say, everywhere I go, you seem to be the adult on stage.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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That’s what it looks like.

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The key is Ohio, Ohio is a reset, everybody said 'You put all your eggs in your New Hampshire basket.' I did, but I'm still standing here. I'm the last governor. We're down to four or five when most people thought I wouldn't get here.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Nobody's pressuring me to get out of the race and frankly, we've got some elections coming up.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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Marco Rubio is trailing in Florida by 17 points. You know what, why aren't they telling him to get out and get behind me? I have a better chance of winning in Ohio than he does in Florida. I mean this is nonsense.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This man has brought more sense of hope and more about the do's in life than the don'ts, this guy has been so humble.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

We're going to spend a lot of time in Michigan, we think that's a very important state for us, and, you know, we can chew gum and walk at the same time.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

They haven't been right about me from the beginning, remember they said he wouldn't get in, he wouldn't have the money, he wouldn't be able to make the debates, he'll have to drop out before New Hampshire. Now it's that he doesn't have the infrastructure in South Carolina.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

At a time when we are just deluged with negative ads and everything, we are peeking through with a positive message.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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Just because someone makes a speech doesn't mean they're on the take, i don't think that's Hillary's biggest problem.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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This lady holds up her hand and starts talking about her 31-year-old addicted daughter and the whole place is like weeping. ... It's just amazing to me.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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You can't play catch-up here (in New Hampshire), you can't play catchup with an organization, you can't play catchup with town halls. You just can't.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I'd be the worst vice president anybody could ever imagine, i'd be worse than Biden. Because I'm my own man.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I think we're running second.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I've never been establishment, but I can work with the establishment.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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The campaigns are spending $4 million of negative ads against me. You think they're worried? They don't spend $4 million ahead of somebody at the bottom.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

At the end of the day, I ’m Ohio Gov. John Kasich, because I’ve seen so many things get accomplished in my lifetime, and we can do it again together.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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They want to look at you, they want to poke you, maybe take a little smell once in a while, size you up and try to figure out if you've got the right stuff to be president of the United States, and I think it's a great process.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

In a crowded field, when you have people knocking on doors, when you have people making phone calls, when we touch the voter, that's really significant. And I always thought it would pay off, in politics, anything can happen. It usually does, but we feel very good about where we are.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Among independent voters -- and there's a lot of independent voters that vote up here, I think it's as much as 40% of the turnout -- I'm actually at this point running even with Donald Trump, which is particularly interesting.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Eight years from now I look forward to giving a State of the Union that describes a stronger, safer and more united America.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We don't need to give a school teacher money or training to tell kids, 'Don't get on drugs,' if someone can convince me that we need money, I'm willing to listen, but I haven't figured it out yet.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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If you get mentors in the schools telling kids about their potential, about what education is about, the fact that they're loved, about the fact that they've got great potential, that changes everything, then you won't mess with drugs.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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If someone can convince me that we need money, I'm willing to listen, but I haven't figured it out yet.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We can’t back off of this, he must go.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

We want to make sure that we can exploit all the information that we possibly can get.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

When you attack Hispanics, when you characterize all Muslims in a negative way, when you insult women, we don't think that that's good, we think, at this point in time more than any other time, we need to have America united, and we need to have an American president that's going to unite us and not divide us.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I don't necessarily believe what I see because it's not a poll of likely voters.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I will consolidate them into a new agency that has a clear mandate to promote the core, Judeo-Christian, Western values that we and our friends and allies share -- the values of human rights, the values of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We as Americans must assert leadership and we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with France and the French people, this is a moment to bring us together.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Today Nato should invoke article 5 of our NATO agreement, which basically says an attack on an ally is an attack on us and an attack on all of the Western world, we as Americans must assert leadership and we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with France and the French people.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I would just hope that our Western friends and people that share our Western values would realize that the time has come to destroy ISIS as part of a coalition, and if that means that U.S. boots have to be on the ground, so be it.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Because to allow this to linger, to put this off, to think that somehow this is going to go away is naive at best. i believe that sometimes friends will disagree -- or, I wouldn't say Russia's our friend, but I would say interested parties can disagree.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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And if that means that U.S. boots have to be on the ground, so be it.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I believe that sometimes friends will disagree -- or, I wouldn't say Russia's our friend, but I would say interested parties can disagree.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I've balanced budgets, I was the chief architect (of a balanced federal budget) in Washington, we created jobs, families were better, when I came to Ohio we were $8 billion in the hole, now we're $2 billion in the black, we have lots of school choice, I've cut taxes by more than any sitting governor in America. You know, families are better, wages are growing faster than the national average, our credit is strong. What is there not to like?

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It's so silly! here's what my goal is: I not only want to cut taxes and create jobs for families, but ship a lot of programs back home so that people will be empowered to begin to build our families and our communities, which is about the spirit of our country. Now if that's not conservative, you tell me what is.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That is conservatism, to give people a chance to live out their God-given potential, and because some people say they don't like my tone or because I question abolishing Medicare or Medicaid, that that's not conservative? Listen, I have a plan to improve Medicare and Medicaid. I have done it in Ohio. To say that we're going to deport 10 or 11 million people and divide families, that's just nutty.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I don't really care about blogs.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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These plans would put us trillions and trillions of dollars in debt, why don’t we just give a chicken in every pot?

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

In my lifetime, I can't remember a time when our nation waits for bad things to happen to us. We need to take control of our future now, today I lay out my vision for lifting our nation by reclaiming our power, by reclaiming our money and by reclaiming our influence from Washington.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I got Bush's campaign people out in my hometown, and I have a library out there, OK? I got a library out there. So they've been living in this library trying to dig up all this stuff against me.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Obviously, they must not be thinking that I don't matter in this if they're out in my hometown.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

A lot of the people who are doing the complaining and saying, why isn't anything getting done -- maybe they ought to look in the mirror, what have they accomplished?

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

What have they accomplished?

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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And Boehner sat at the leadership table right next to me and we pushed those things through and that was some of the most productive time that Republicans or conservatives have had.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would sign it, yes, look, I'm a governor. I'm a CEO. I have to have a hand steady on the wheel. But in this case, I'm more than glad to say that of course I would sign that.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Well if you shut down the government, the question is, will you defund (Planned Parenthood)? I think the answer is no.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The American people will say, 'What are you doing?'.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

My way or the highway doesn't work in life.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If I were not president, but if I were King of America, I would abolish all teacher's lounges, where they sit together and worry about 'woe is us,'.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I care about them, i'm not saying other people don't, but it touches me specially.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I think (abortion) is an important issue, but I think there's many other issues that are really critical. Early childhood. Infant mortality. The environment. Education, i think we focus too much on just one issue, and now that the issue of gay marriage is kind of off the table, we're kind of down to one social issue.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I think ISIS has risen, frankly, because there's been nobody over there to stop them, i think that all the religions of the world ought to stand up and say, 'You blow up innocent men, women and children and you think you're going to paradise? There's something wrong with you. You're nuts. If we catch you, we're going to throw you into prison, maybe for the rest of your life.'.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I think it relates to (issues) like early childhood education for kids, people who are in prison, giving them a chance to get their lives back if they want to earn their way there.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I would have a coalition of countries, including us, on the ground, beginning to degrade and destroy ISIS. Because as you begin to do it, that whole caliphate begins to fall apart in my judgment.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

I think Republicans allow themselves to be put in a box, she's like whispering like that's bad to say. No. To me, conservatism is giving everybody a chance to be able to be successful. That's the way Reagan was.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm just not going to pound the table on these things and say my way or the highway, i mean, I will on some things, but I better be careful about that. Because you know what -- I actually think about what it would be like to be president.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I actually think about what it would be to be president, so if you ever notice when people run for president, they make lots of promises and they never keep them. ... And you know why? Because they make promises they can't keep because they don't know any better.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I would prefer for them to be legalized once we find out who they are because they can -- i think they contribute a lot to America.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

In no way do I advocate, you know, saying mean things about people.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Frankly, I thought that Jeb was going to just suck all the air out of the room and it just hasn't happened.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

And it's serving us well, but the credit goes to the leadership in Cleveland who have spoken with one voice saying protest, but no violence is acceptable in Cleveland. And the people of Cleveland should be proud of what's been happening here in the last 24 hours.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

But the credit goes to the leadership in Cleveland who have spoken with one voice saying protest, but no violence is acceptable in Cleveland. And the people of Cleveland should be proud of what's been happening here in the last 24 hours.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We have metrics set internally.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Forget it, forget it, forget it. I don't play for seconds.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger, not a (typical) politician ... but somebody that's going to go in, do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strength in our military as well.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The results here in Ohio give me, I think, a lot of credibility for our team to be able to move forward.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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You want to be President? You better win Ohio.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Not a (typical) politician ... but somebody that's going to go in, do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strength in our military as well.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I am for marriage as defined between a man and a woman. If the Supreme Court changes that, that has to be respected, if somebody I like is getting married in the traditional sense, or the non-traditional sense, I'll go.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm optimistic we'll have resources to move forward, but it's yet to be determined.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I'm direct, but I care about people. I want people to feel like they matter.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I went home and I said to my wife, 'my friend's getting married. What do you think? You wanna go?' She goes, 'Oh, I'm absolutely going.' I called him today and said, 'Hey, just let me know what time it is,' my friend knows how I feel about the issue, but I'm not here to have a war with him. I care about my friend, and so it's pretty simple for me.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't want to do this just to run around, i have to feel that I have a very good chance to win.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

You don't want to play ping pong with me because we'll be playing until the sun comes up—until I beat you, that's just the way it works with me.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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It's really like, what's the Lord want me to do?

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I've been serious about this all along, you're just catching on.

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The most important [question] is can I win? Is it a winnable situation?

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I had great success in Washington. We've had great success in Ohio. So I think I should let people know what that is and let them decide if they like it or not.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

If you don't help the mentally ill, they end up in a prison or in a jail or on the streets. There's a societal cost to that that's ongoing, if you don't help the working poor to figure out a way to become independent, there's a societal to cost to that as well.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't like the term, particularly, 'compassionate conservative,' because that implies that we just give people something and that's the end of it, our idea is you help them so that they can get in a position where they can help themselves and break whatever cycle they may be a part of.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

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.

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Maybe people who say those things are reshaping the party; We have a right to reshape it. Ronald Reagan reshaped it.

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Either I practice or I don't do it.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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I have to get back to you on the financial regulation.

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If it doesn't work, I'm not doing it to make it work. I'm doing it because it is what I want to do.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

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We are running surpluses of two billion, we are structurally balanced. Half the states, almost half the states are not.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

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