Quotes from John Kasich

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

We have to be tolerant of other people's points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

But the health of a society can be measured by how often and how meaningfully its people are able to reach that higher plane, to live lives bigger than they are.

I don't care what party you belong to or what office you're seeking—you owe it to your constituents, to the people you're looking to serve, to get it right. If you say something is so, then it ought to be so.

If there's nothing heroic about how you approach your time in office, you can't expect to be held up as any kind of hero to your nation's young people.

The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.

Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

My thinking was this: Just because you're out to curb some of the ridiculous costs doesn't mean you're out to weaken the nation's defense.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.