John Kasich Quotes

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

We begin by trying to alter what we can see, but the tremors which our action starts sometimes run through the entire depth our society; levels to which we pay no conscious attention are stirred, and all kinds of unintended results ensue.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Any initiative which patently served the interests of society was immediately viewed with suspicion and even with overt hostility. Why was our system so unresponsive to renewal and innovation?

We believe that a society in turmoil cannot be saved through mere legislation.

When you pass a law you don't solve the problem. You state the problem.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?

The American people are not inclined to change their society in order to free the Negro. They are ready to undertake some, and perhaps major reforms, but not to make a revolution.

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of ants.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.