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John Kasich

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John Kasich is a Republican politician who served as the 69th Governor of Ohio from January 10, 2011, to January 14, 2019. Prior to his governorship, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001, representing Ohio's 12th congressional district. During his time as governor, Kasich focused on issues such as Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, education reform, and economic development. He is known for his moderate stance within the Republican Party and his willingness to work across party lines on various issues.

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Aug 26, 2018

This is a time for us to be together and to have some peace, and sort of call a truce to all the things that have been happening here, the John McCain opposed.

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Apr 2, 2018

Well, look, I've just seen a few of the reports and I don't think that what is being said is accurate. But we don't want to be in a position of where our leaders are just pounding down over and over again to drive their stock down. I don't…

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Apr 2, 2018

I was very disappointed and upset on Easter Sunday to read these tweets about the fact that no more deal for DACA. All of a sudden on Easter Sunday, we're going to yank hope from them and put them into some sort of a panic? That's not what…

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Apr 2, 2018

My intention is to fix my party. And my intention is not even to fix my party so much as it is to get everybody to say, we can't continue down this road.

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Feb 25, 2018

No, I don't think so. I think it's reasonable to put significant limits on that.

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Feb 25, 2018

When he says that they're going to have to eliminate these bump stocks... If he follows through on that, it's fantastic.

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Feb 25, 2018

It's not designed to have a slippery slope to go and grab somebody's, you know, something that is their constitutional right.

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Feb 25, 2018

Well, Anderson, what we have here is if the school board thinks that it can be done, which is the right way to do it, then the school board can give permission for a teacher to be trained.

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Jan 16, 2018

Governor John Kasich wrote an op-ed piece in which he said we haven't used all the soft power with respect to sanctions that we could have.

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Dec 13, 2017

Let's become a party that can fix problems, not one that runs away or blames somebody else for it.

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Dec 13, 2017

I do support the tax bill. I do think that Marco Rubio saying that we need to do more for the hardworking lower income folks is exactly right.

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Dec 13, 2017

The party needs to have an agenda that is not reflected on yesterday but on tomorrow.

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Dec 13, 2017

If Democrats think that people across in Virginia or over there in Alabama are voting because they got some great ideas, they're making a huge mistake.

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Dec 13, 2017

You've got to start being more positive. You've got to address the issues that people care about.

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Dec 13, 2017

I think the party is losing the future, as we're standing here today. I mean, the future are young people. Young people right now are not inclined to vote Republican.

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Sep 24, 2017

First, more than eight people in Ohio likely will die today, if this is a typical day, due to an opioid overdose. We tragically lead the Nation in the number of people who died in the course of the last couple of years from opioid overdose.

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Sep 24, 2017

Make no mistake, losing billions of dollars would be devastating to Ohio as we work to provide care to our State's most vulnerable and drug-addicted. The only ones who can support this legislation are those who have not had time to…

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Sep 19, 2017

No I don't think so. Look, this is a -- if you take the Medicaid expansion along with subsidies so people could afford to have health insurance, this is a 17 percent cut in that.

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Sep 19, 2017

I know that in order to have anything sustainable, I don't care what it is, civil rights, balancing budgets, welfare reform, entitlement reform, tax reforms, you got to have both parties.

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Sep 19, 2017

And I'd argue at the time that we could deal with Medicaid later as part of an entitlement reform package that could include Medicare and social security because entitlements are out of control.

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