If there's anything this country needs now, it needs to have, you know, a really revitalized economy and I know how to do that in Washington.

I believe you win elections from the bottom up and so national polls are not my great concern.

Ohio does have an energy industry but we're diversified. We're one of the fastest growing states in the country.

I don't think we should think about abolishing Medicare. We need to reform Medicare but we're not going to abolish it, I mean, and these tax schemes, they cost trillions of dollars.

I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned how make people jobs.

We ought to have politicians not only with government experience, but know how the CEOs and the job creators work. My state is doing great across the board.

When I hear a candidate talking about eliminating Medicaid and Medicare it sets off an alarm for me.

I think what got him all revved up is when I said fantasy land is over. You can't keep making stuff up and dreaming up these programs that just don't work, and so I don't think we can send 10 million people out of this country and leave…

when children are in Head Start, they are on a superhighway, and then they hit the gravel road of public education.

They are great, they're God-fearing, hardworking folks. And lot of them do jobs that they're willing to do and that's why in the hotel you leave a little tip, you know, when they -- this lady wrote, you know, in my hotel there in L.A.

I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay.

I don't take any orders from anybody. The people want to give me money that's great, what they're doing is hiring a CEO. And I'll listen to you but nobody tells me with -- do you can balance the federal budget or fix Ohio by, by catering…

Well I was happy, I mean what was most important for me was to talk about my record and to be relaxed. And I had a great time.

So if one of my daughters happened to be that, of course I would love them and I would accept them, because you know what? That's what we're taught when we have strong faith. We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with…

Then Representative John Kasich stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and said every economic model in this country projects that this bill is a job killer.

It is going to save lives. It is going to help people. You tell me what is more important than that.

Some of the federal statutory and regulatory barriers to school reform also have been removed through the flexibility provided to Ohio under the U.S. Department of Education's waiver initiative.

One program in particular comes to mind which I fought hard for when I was on this committee, and that is full funding of special education, otherwise known as IDEA funding.

I know that the committee will be discussing all sorts of different recommendations that will be provided by research and by staff and by the CBO and by other interest groups.

I believe that every single dollar that is expended by this government should be subject to scrutiny and should be on the table.

I am glad that the committee is bringing up the budget sooner rather than later and sticking with the statutory schedule that was outlined in the Budget Empowerment Control Act of 1974.

And under the leadership of John Kasich and our leadership in the House and Senate at that time, we were able to send President Clinton budgets that brought us not only into balance but into surplus within 4 years.

John Kasich is running for governor, the fact that he basically found somebody who isn't really a steelworker, but plays one on TV.

let me say that last year, the House, the Senate and the administration engaged in what I would call and has been termed a historic act of grace, and it was designed to relieve the debt of the poorest nations of the world. My interests…

The thrust of our amendment was to force the Europeans, who had made pledges to us in Kosovo, to live up to the pledges that they made. They were going to help us in four specific areas of Kosovo activity, and they were going to be in such…