I have two choices. I can continue to follow the path that I'm on, and give people the vision and the hope, or I can call names. Now, if I don't call names and I don't win, I will have won anyway, because that's what really matters to me: raising the bar in politics, showing that vision counts.

John Kasich

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We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

John Kasich

dream giving needs

Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in so many ways to rebuild our country, to strengthen our country, to rebuild our defense, and for America to secure it's place it world; for us, for our children, and for the next generation.

John Kasich

believe country children

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

John Kasich

lazy war facts

Do you think that I like to have to fight the leaders in my own party over this or that? Of course not. There's no joy in that. But John Kennedy may have said it best - sometimes my party asks too much.

John Kasich

party fighting thinking

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

John Kasich

leader together people

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

John Kasich

united stronger country

I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

John Kasich

compassion responsibility teamwork

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

John Kasich

agreement country people

You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.

John Kasich

giving-up mean world

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

John Kasich

light dark people

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

John Kasich

ohio should-have philosophy

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

John Kasich

law writing people

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

John Kasich

mines gay happens

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 politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and 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 strengthening our military as well.

John Kasich

strength change country

Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal. And that includes people in our minority community; that includes people who feel as though they don't have a chance to move up.

John Kasich

keys moving thinking

It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.

John Kasich

law house mean

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

John Kasich

bigs guy littles

A friend asked one of my daughters, "Do you like politics?" And my daughter said, "No, I don't. And the reason I don't like it is because there's too much fighting, too much yelling. It's so loud, I don't like it." You know, I turned to my friend and I said, "You know, she's really on to something."

John Kasich

yelling daughter fighting

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

John Kasich

accurate looks

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

John Kasich

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