292 Quotes by John Kasich

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.

I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it’s a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.