Top 90 John Kasich Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.”

— John Kasich

52. “Guess what? I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay.”

— John Kasich

53. “And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.”

— John Kasich

54. “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.”

— John Kasich

55. “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.”

— John Kasich

56. “I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can’t find a job.”

— John Kasich

57. “The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don’t have a strong economy, we can’t pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not.”

— John Kasich

58. “Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.”

— John Kasich

59. “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.”

— John Kasich

60. “We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they’re like this system is terrible.”

— John Kasich

61. “Everybody should have a chance to rise. That’s our philosophy in Ohio and that’s my philosophy for America.”

— John Kasich

62. “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.”

— John Kasich

63. “My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I’m going to fix things as best as I can. I’m going to get a team together to fix things. And I can’t sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I’m doing.”

— John Kasich

64. “Somebody tells me no, they’re not going to keep telling me no, because I’m going to bother them to the point where it’s a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.”

— John Kasich

65. “We’re now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.”

— John Kasich

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

— John Kasich

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

— John Kasich

68. “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.”

— John Kasich

69. “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.”

— John Kasich

70. “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.”

— John Kasich

71. “There is a big problem. It’s called encryption. And the people in San Bernardino were communicating with people who the FBI had been watching. But because their phone was encrypted, because the intelligence officials could not see who they were talking to, it was lost.”

— John Kasich

72. “For the Russians, frankly, it’s time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They’ve gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies.”

— John Kasich

73. “A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That’s what we need to do.”

— John Kasich

74. “For heaven’s sake, this is 2015. I’ve run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.”

— John Kasich

75. “Let’s think about how we can bring economic development, let’s see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.”

— John Kasich

76. “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.”

— John Kasich

77. “Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.”

— John Kasich

78. “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.”

— John Kasich

79. “I try to keep what I say. And I – I’m not deviated from this position at all.”

— John Kasich

80. “We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam’s ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.”

— John Kasich

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

— John Kasich

82. “I’ve heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We’re going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That’s just not the way I behave.”

— John Kasich

83. “We still have systems we don’t need, we have infrastructure we don’t need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.”

— John Kasich

84. “And no one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn’t think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn’t think I’d do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.”

— John Kasich

85. “But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we’re a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.”

— John Kasich

86. “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.”

— John Kasich

87. “If the B2 is invisible, just announce you’ve built 100 of them and don’t build them.”

— John Kasich

88. “There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.”

— John Kasich

89. “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.”

— John Kasich

90. “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.”

— John Kasich