John Kasich Quotes

The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself.

When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there has to be a revolution and this is a party for the young.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

We [the Republican Party] are the change.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

I'm proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party.

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

I was a Republican before Donald Trump was a Republican. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was a Democrat. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was an independent. And I'm going to be a Republican when Donald Trump gets tired of being a Republican.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

I'm proud to be a Democrat, and I feel pretty strongly that the country would be better off with Democrats in charge.

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

I've had over $20 million spent attacking me. That's not grassroots money. That's money from the establishment. We have always had to take on the establishment. We'll do it again, because the Republican Party needs to turn the page and move forward. And we will.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It's not just the evangelicals. It's the moderates, as well.

France, of course, doesn't need anyone. I don't believe in saviors. But the way in which our country is governed needs to change radically. That starts with the politicians and goes right up to our electoral system and beyond. What we need is a fundamental renewal.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.