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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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May 15, 2016

I'm for uniting, and I have to see him move to uniting. If he doesn't, I'm undecided here at this point.

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May 4, 2016

John Kasich knows how to legislate one of the smartest guys who had ever work in Washington, and also is a CEO but to the congressman's point, he would be a fantastic pick.

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Apr 27, 2016

So I thought about should I keep going. Should I carry on? What is this all about?

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Apr 24, 2016

I don't have, you know, like 'Daddy' War bucks behind me giving me this money. I have to be careful about my resources.

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Apr 24, 2016

If we don't win, we lose the Supreme Court, we lose the United States Senate, we're going to lose races from the courthouse to the statehouse.

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Apr 24, 2016

I've never told them not to vote for me. They ought to vote for me.

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Apr 24, 2016

I'd like to see an open convention, Ted Cruz would like to see an open convention, and I think Trump would not, because he's afraid if he goes to an open convention, he has no chance of winning.

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Apr 24, 2016

I don't see this as any big deal, other than that fact I'm not going to spend resources in Indiana, he's not going to spend in other places. So what? What's the big deal? I've never told them not to vote for me, they ought vote for me.

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Apr 14, 2016

I applaud efforts to limit the number of opioids prescribed nationally to ensure that these powerful drugs are only used in the course of appropriate medical care.

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Apr 14, 2016

I would like to thank you, Senator Brown, for your support as well.

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Apr 14, 2016

Governor Kasich challenged Ohio children's hospitals to work together to come up with a better approach to this.

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Apr 14, 2016

CARA takes a similarly comprehensive approach and addresses on a national level several things that Ohio has demonstrated we know are working and making some progress.

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Apr 11, 2016

The path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred, and divides people. It cheapens each one of us. It has but one beneficiary, and that is to the politician who speaks of it.

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Apr 11, 2016

I'm not going to be anybody's vice president. I would be the worst vice president the country ever saw. You know why? Because I'm not like a vice president. I'm a president.

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Apr 10, 2016

When you say to somebody we're going to surveil your neighborhood because you're a Muslim, if you want to find out what's going on in a neighborhood, who do you think you would ask?

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Apr 10, 2016

The other way is to tell them, hey, we do have problems, but they can be fixed. And let's look up and let's pull together.

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Apr 10, 2016

I'm fighting for the guy that lived across the street from me who got up early in the morning and was clean and worked all day and came home and was dirty.

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Apr 10, 2016

The first path is feeding on people's fears and driving them into a ditch, separating us and telling people that we as Americans are now failures, our country is a failure. And it just -- it just creates more anger. It's exploiting…

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Apr 10, 2016

I want government as a last resort, not as a first resort. And I've always felt that the Republican Party was closer to that than the Democratic Party was.

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Apr 10, 2016

I don't want to take the low road to the highest office in the land. And I haven't.

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Apr 10, 2016

Why would I be the only one to beat Hillary in the fall? Why do all the polls show that?

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Apr 10, 2016

I will make you this promise. No more eating pizza with a fork.

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