John Kasich Quotes

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the 'banks too big to fail.'

I think people are sick and tired of bailouts, domestically and internationally.

The Chrysler bailout is a basic challenge to the philosophy of America.

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive little or no assistance. This disparate treatment, unappealing as it is, appears unavoidable.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Business, too, need to mend its ways. For many years various sections of American industry have asked for special legislation which offered a temporary benefit at the expense of normal economic processes. Business has asked for special subsidies and special tariffs, for special protection against price cutters or low cost producers, for government appropriations for this or that special purpose. Business cannot ask for government interference at one time, and then indignantly reject it at another.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

I have always opposed subsidies to private corporations.

New Jersey is not going to give the money earned by average taxpayers to millionaire sports owners and give government subsidies to sports teams.

... corporate power ... is not only economic—the ability to set prices without regard to market pressures or to manipulate consumer demand. It is also political—the ability to use the public government to obtain private economic goals. Corporate power means the ability of big corporations to have more than their fair share of influence over the decisions of government.

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.