John Kasich
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John Kasich
John Richard Kasich is an American politician, the 69th and current Governor of Ohio, first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 May 1952
CountryUnited States of America
party winning debate
If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.
party believe evolve
I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.
party addiction people
The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.
party republican evolve
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.
elected gotten money passing
Republicans have gotten the sense that they're going to get elected by passing out money to people.
couple mean chinese
First of all, we're not Rust Belt. I mean, that's an old term. We do have manufacturing. We have a half-a-billion-dollar investment from a Chinese individual, which brings a couple thousand jobs in Dayton.
trade free-trade
I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.
billion gain hole state surplus took
I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.
maybe strong thinking
He's got strong convictions, maybe he's thinking that is what he's got to do.
cheating people aggressive
Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].
cheating
When there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called.
budget choose dead duck expansion forces fund lame national president raising relief retiring saving security social taxes toward
If the president forces us to choose between his raising taxes or raiding Social Security to fund his expansion of government, his budget is dead on arrival, ... A lame duck president should not be able to derail us on the way toward retiring the national debt, tax relief and saving Social Security.
technology replaced
If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.
living
If you can't, frankly, you're living in the past,