Mike DeWine

I think we should trust our systems, we should trust our judicial system, the President had every right to go into court, his campaign had every right to go into court, courts do a good job, you know, discerning what the facts are, and…

It's clear that, certainly, based on what we know now, that Joe Biden is the president-elect. And that transition, for the country's sake, it's important for a normal transition to start through.

People like Republican governor, Mike DeWine, are out there tonight saying count every vote. That's one problem, just the un-Americaness of it.

If you care about doctors and you care about nurses, you care about first responders, firefighters or EMTs or police officers who may have to deal with you if you get sick, you just wear a mask.

We're approaching a huge number, a number of Americans who have died. And that's just absolutely gut-wrenching and horrible.

If you think wearing a mask is something that's bad, so you want to try what I went through.

You've got to wear a mask, you've got to keep the social distancing, you've got to be careful.

Ohio has not seen a 14-day downward trajectory in cases which was one of the benchmarks initially laid out by the Coronavirus Task Force.

We're trying to balance it this way: you know, we've seen for about three weeks a slight downward trend in hospitalization, which we think is good.

The news out today is very concerning: it should be concerning to every American.

It's really what people do every day in their own lives that ultimately has this huge effect across the state.

Well, I think that it's absolutely true that there are a lot of costs for high unemployment, and a huge crash in the economy, that we have seen.

What we are now doing is I'm talking a lot about it, and we really, you know, hope that people, when they think about this, will understand that this is a very important thing to do.

It's not even for them, it's for everybody else in the store. Can a -- if that's not law, can a business still insist that people either wear a mask, or -- and if not, they don't come in?

Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, is going to join me to talk about whether these new projections in any way affect his timeline for Ohio.

One of the things that we really, really need is testing. You know, if you talk about a pathway -- if you talk about a pathway to get us back, testing -- ample testing is going to be the way that we get back, and get our people working…

Ultimately the buck stops with me and stops with the other governors, but again I understand what the President's saying.

I have to make the decision that's my responsibility, but we're certainly going to consult with the White House.

Our churches 99.9% of our churches are closed in Ohio, I would say.

It would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year.

If you're going to address them at all, it seems to me it has to be done at the national level.

I think people will say, look, that is due process. And I can accept that because -- our friends for the Second Amendment, everybody agrees, we have some people out there, Anderson, who we got to separate from their guns.

I think we can get them all passed. It's not going to be easy, but when I propose them, you know, the tape you played was on Sunday night. A tragedy, of course, occurred Sunday morning. On Tuesday morning I made proposals, put a package…

We worry about is that we are just encouraging people to go seek a higher high.

What starts as a $10-a-day habit may go to $1,000-a-day habit.