John Kasich Quotes

In any campaign you make a lot of promises and you talk about a wide range of issues. When you're elected, the work of accomplishing those goals has to be sequenced. You can't do everything at once.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

One of the biggest challenges for any new administration is contending with its predecessor's priorities and beginning to advance its own.

I've taken firm positions on issues the voters care about, and I will get my positions implemented.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

I do politics in order to do policy.

Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The business of government is justice.

Politics and life go hand in hand.