John Kasich
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"John Richard Kasich" is the 69th Governor of Ohio, in office since 2011. A member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from 1983 to 2001. He was a commentator on Fox News Channel, hosting Heartland with John Kasich (2001–2007). He also worked as an investment banker, as managing director of Lehman Brothers' Columbus, Ohio office until Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers/the firm collapsed in 2008.

In the Ohio gubernatorial election, 2010/2010 Ohio gubernatorial election, Kasich defeated Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland, 49% to 47%. He was Ohio gubernatorial election, 2014/re-elected in a landslide in 2014, defeating Democrat Ed FitzGerald, the County Executive of Cuyahoga County, 64% to 33% and winning all but two counties.

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I didn't read anything in there that didn't say that he didn't do a good job, that he was praised by a lot of people he worked with.

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There's no question about it, we can set aside a very large amount -- the most in modern history -- to save Social Security, and we can also give the American people a tax cut.

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I think the president is a little tone deaf on this one.

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We want to ... begin to solve the Social Security problem for three generations and also help American families today to get some of their money back, and that's precisely what our plan will do, and I think the American people will embrace it.

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The U.S. can and should remain strongly engaged internationally, because regional instability will not solve itself. But we must choose our tools very carefully, for the stakes do not allow failure. Power is a finite quantity; if we expend it all over the world, we diminish ourselves.

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If we don't cut taxes, we'll invent emergencies to spend the money on.

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This is a good budget that will allow us to have the money we need to fix social Security for over three generations.

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If the president forces us to choose between his raising taxes or raiding Social Security to fund his expansion of government, his budget is dead on arrival, ... A lame duck president should not be able to derail us on the way toward retiring the national debt, tax relief and saving Social Security.

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If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

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