John Kasich Quotes

I think somebody that got along with the Democrats could change instantaneously. But the level of animosity... You know, in the old days "across the aisle" wasn't the worst thing. People got along. Today, the level of hatred, the level of anger is high.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

My Republican compatriots do not feel that people ought to work with Democrats across the aisle—Compromise is a bad word.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

I rise today with no small measure of regret, regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse.

Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

Democrats should never publicly criticize Obama.

Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.

For a while under Donald Trump, it was possible to believe that we could go back to a more functional, less rancorous time. This desire was expressed most eloquently at John McCain's funeral services.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.

I've worked with a variety of presidents over the years on both sides of the aisle and congressmen and senators, so I'm not into trying to demonize anybody. It used to be that people would fight like hell on the floor of the house and they'd go have a beer together. Now it's like you're radioactive if you talk to the other side, which keeps us from getting anything done. I'm an independent personally, and I vote for who I believe will make the biggest difference.

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

[The Democrats] can't stop [Donald] Trump. They are in the exact position that the Republicans were in in 2009 and 2010 with [Barack] Obama.

In my view, Democrats and Republicans work together too little, and I would try to change that if I got to be president. And when it came to radical Islam, I would go after them before they come back here again.