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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.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Are you kidding me? Of course, we have to deal with entitlements.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There was never a chance of that, there was never ever, ever any consideration.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's about pulling us together, not pulling us apart.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My people aren't like robots -- you know, go do this, go do that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
People say, everywhere I go, you seem to be the adult on stage.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Nobody's pressuring me to get out of the race and frankly, we've got some elections coming up.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
At a time when we are just deluged with negative ads and everything, we are peeking through with a positive message.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Just because someone makes a speech doesn't mean they're on the take, i don't think that's Hillary's biggest problem.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'd be the worst vice president anybody could ever imagine, i'd be worse than Biden. Because I'm my own man.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've never been establishment, but I can work with the establishment.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Eight years from now I look forward to giving a State of the Union that describes a stronger, safer and more united America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If someone can convince me that we need money, I'm willing to listen, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We want to make sure that we can exploit all the information that we possibly can get.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't necessarily believe what I see because it's not a poll of likely voters.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe that sometimes friends will disagree -- or, I wouldn't say Russia's our friend, but I would say interested parties can disagree.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
And if that means that U.S. boots have to be on the ground, so be it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
These plans would put us trillions and trillions of dollars in debt, why don’t we just give a chicken in every pot?
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Obviously, they must not be thinking that I don't matter in this if they're out in my hometown.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The American people will say, 'What are you doing?'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well if you shut down the government, the question is, will you defund (Planned Parenthood)? I think the answer is no.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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,'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I care about them, i'm not saying other people don't, but it touches me specially.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In no way do I advocate, you know, saying mean things about people.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Frankly, I thought that Jeb was going to just suck all the air out of the room and it just hasn't happened.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Forget it, forget it, forget it. I don't play for seconds.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The results here in Ohio give me, I think, a lot of credibility for our team to be able to move forward.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm direct, but I care about people. I want people to feel like they matter.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm optimistic we'll have resources to move forward, but it's yet to be determined.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't want to do this just to run around, i have to feel that I have a very good chance to win.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The most important [question] is can I win? Is it a winnable situation?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I've been serious about this all along, you're just catching on.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Maybe people who say those things are reshaping the party; We have a right to reshape it. Ronald Reagan reshaped it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have to get back to you on the financial regulation.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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