Richmond, virginia. Today, Ohio Governor and republican president ial candidate john kasich made a Campaign Stop in bow, New Hampshire, where he spoke to voters and answered questions about the economy and questions on the environment. Hes introduced by john so knew newspaper. This is an hour. Ive been here quite a few time, im sure not nearly as often as many of you in the all of a sudden. I would like to begin things by asking marge welch to lead us in he pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under gold, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much, marge. Again, thank you all for coming out. Just ay pleasure to take moment someone im proud to call a great friend, john kasich. I was first elected to Congress Nearly 20 members years ago and became a proud member of the Budget Committee. It is just when i wanted to be. We had an incredible, inspirational and innovative leader in john kasich. He wasnt afraid to take on special interests, touch tough issues. Entitlement reform, tax reform and trying to scale back the size of the federal government. A lot of people in washington do not like anyone to talk about those things but he never shied away from it. He was the kind of leader i wanted to be, fear Michelle Estill fearless, tough, and very, very innovative. Hes been a friend for a long time. Many of you know his record in the state of ohio, taking that same kind of leadership. Problem solving, tough and aggressive and in a state like tough at was on tough, onomic times, turning things around piece by piece. Taking a surplus taking a deficit and turning it into a surplus. [laughter] the fact of the matter is the great people of the state of ohio are much kinder to me when i make a small verbal miscue like that than john kasich would ever be. It was an 8 billion deficit when he came to the state of ohio and today they do have a 2 billion surplus, creating over 350,000 jobs and doing it while cutting taxes. That is a record of achievement and transformation that i think hassle rarely been matched in in country and i want him to take that leadership and that vision and that creativity and inspiration to washington, d. C. Baus thats the kind of leadership we need the washington today. Someone thats not afraid to scale back the size of government. Give us our power back here and New Hampshire and other states. Let us control the programs and get the economy moving with tax reform by rolling back unnecessary regulations and unleashing the power of small business. These are all things that ive seen john kasich advocate for year after year and to do it successfully. Not just talking about but actually doing it and we need a president who can go to washington and get those things done. I believe that person is john kasich. Ladies and gentlemen, its my pleasure to introduce my personal friend john kasich. [applause] john john sa so knew knew, the man who turns surpluses into deficits. He was the guy that stuck it do you to you, john. It wasnt me, honestly. Can you take that phone . If its the president , ill call him back. Just kidding, mr. President , anyway, this is really nice. This is a really nice little spot and john has been a great friend and talked to me about the fact that irked do this, run for president. I didnt really think i would and so many of you will say we dont know that much about him or never really heard of him. I was taking care of business in ohio and it was really a mess. 20 of our operating budget. It would be like blowing a hole in your takehome payment we had to get all that fixed. Before that, a quick story. Blue up in a little collar town outside of pittsburgh the steelers won last night, by the way, i read in the paper. I dont know how you feel about it. Youre all new England Patriots fans. You know youre going to win the super bowl again. Whether you blow the football up or not. Yeah, somebody is hissing at me. Theres a guy here named tom raft, hes a former attorney general. I didnt know he was going to be for me and he didnt know. I said until you endorse me, im putting a curse on the boston red sox. When he finally endorsed me, i took off the curse only for home games ch anyway, i grew up in this little town. His father was a coal miner. Hi ground father died of black lung, lost a lot of his eyesight. My dads fall was family was really hard scramble. My mother was a very smarts lady but never was able to go to college. Her mother lived with us. An immigrants from ewing salavea, could barely speak english. The town where i grew up was almost all democrat. The town did not have great security. If the wind blew the wrong way people could find themselveses out of washing washington work. Its where igot my values. The values i carried into politics, it would be sticking sticking up with those people because a up with lot of times no one represents that them. Thats important because that i believe puts you in connection with the fears and the concerns and the hopefulness that people try who play by the rules, to get ahead, try to teach people about how great our country can be. I left there and went to a small midwestern school. Not sure that any of you have ever heard of it. Its called ohio state niversity. I was there for a short time and very frustrated by some things that were happening. Big bureaucracy. Red tape and all that. Great place, i loved it, but it was trying. I wasnt doing well so i met with the president of the university. Uncle emil told me you always start at the top. So i badgeered him to let me in. I went in to see the president. He had a very impressive office, beautiful rugs and chairs and all that. I said sir, ive been in school for about a month and im un decided here at ohio state but looking around amount everything you have in this office maybe this is the job for me. Hat do you to . He told me about his fundraising and academic responsibilities and said the next day he would go down and talk with president nixon. I said theres a number of things id like to talk to him about also. Could i go with you . He said no. I said if i write a letter would you give it to him . E said he would. I wrote a letter to the president inviting myself for a discussion. I go to my mailbox a couple weeks later and there was a letter from the white house and i open it up and i go upstairs and i call home and my mother answers the phone and i said, the president of the United States would like to have a meeting with me in the oval office. My mother is shouting, pick up the phone, something is wrong with johnny. Short, they tory buy me an airline ticket, i fly to washington, i get in through the security, im sitting outside the oval office. A guy walks up to me, he says you get five minutes alone with the president of the United States. I tell you what im thinking. New jacket, new shirt, new tie, new pants, im not coming out in five lousy minutes. Youre out of luck. They opened up the door, i walked in, i greeted the president , i spent 20 minutes in the oval office as an 18yearold firstquarter freshman and the bad news is i spent 18 years in congress and f you add up all the time in the oval office, i peaked out at the age of 18. Gov. Kasich bobby rahal is an indycar driver. He won the indy 500 and i took him in to see president reagan. When he won that race. We walked in the oval office and there is president reagan and bobby is melting and i met reagan in 1976 as a really young man and worked with him. The president looks at bobby rahal, and says so you won the indy 500, did you . Have you ever heard of of barney olfield . He was a great indycar driver, right . Bobby said, sure. Reagan said, one day i was driving my car on the california freeway and i like to drive really fast and i got pulled over by a state trooper and he walked up to the window on the drivers side and he looked at me and said, who do you think you are barney olfield . He said, no, but he sitting right next to me. If youd like to meet him. That was typical of reagan. So i was a state senator at 26. I was the youngest elected in ohio. I knew no one. I built a team of people. Theres a lady here in New Hampshire who last week drove four hours to see me in vermont and she has been helping me since 1977. Why . I have no clue. I think there must be something wrong with her. To tell you the truth. Gov. Kasich she has been a devoted partner of mine from the standpoint of, we want him to do well. Thats really, really cool. Those are the kind of people who helped me first get elected. I was a troublemaker, i shook it up in the state senate. I went through as in ohioan. Not a republican, though i was. And a conservative. I wrote my first bunt trying to avoid a tax increase that the republicans were trying to do. That got everybody worked up. I went to congress at the age of 30. My mom and dad my hometown, politicians got into a lot of trouble. One time, i went to my class reunion when i was a congressman and one of my classmates walked up to me and said, johnny they used to call me pope he said, i understand you are a congressman. I said yeah. Im feeling pretty good. He said, i voted for you to be one of the most likely to succeed. What went wrong . Gov. Kasich and he wasnt laughing. Ok . I got elected to congress and my mother and father were mazed. My parents were just regular old folks. And here was there son going to work with the president. It was pretty cool. I served on the Defense Committee exclusively for my first few years. You remember the hammers and the screwdrivers and the wrenches that cost tense of i found that with some other congressman and that started the reform of the pentagon. Im a believer in reforming the military, but making sure the military is strong. When you are a republican and reforming the military, how do you think that goes over . Not well. So what . Thats my job, to fix things, improve things. Wasted money is not getting into the hands of our men and women in the military. Favre step on a couple of toes i dont really like to but i will. Six years in, i got on the Budget Committee. John was talking about my work. My first year, i was in my hometown and i was filling up my gas tank and i had been to a couple Budget Committee meetings and i was very disappointed with what i learned. I said, the republicans did not have a good plan, the democrats didnt have a very good plan and i was squawking about it and this guy walks around the gas tank and says if its so bad, what are you going to do about it . Good question, right . Like when you go home from college. You complain and your mom and dad say what are you going to do about it . It is pretty powerful. I flew to washington, i called my staff, i said we are going to write a budget for the United States of america. They said, there are a hundred people in the white house and we only have six. I said, i know that we are overstaffed, but if we stay out of each others way. So i wrote a budget. The vote was 405 to 30. I got the 30. I thought i was doing great. Then each year, i started recruiting more and more people. Those numbers grew. Let me tell you. Yesterday, we were at this big, public meeting. This guy says well, im trying to clean up things in my hometown and im really unpopular and i keep fighting spending. When you work inside of government and you try to change it, you dont win a popularity contest. But what happens is, if youre right and youre thinking appropriately, people will join you. I dont care what you are doing. I dont care what you are working against. If what you are working against and what you are for is compelling, whatever it is, you will start off all alone, but over time, people will help you. I teach that to my daughters. I have two daughters that are going to be 16 in january. They are still learning a lot. We just kept at it year after year after year and i would upset the apple cart year after year after year. One year when president clinton raised taxes, we got together with a group of republican democrats to take a penny out of every dollar of federal spending and congressman sweat, whos here with us today this is his home. He deserves a round of applause for his work in washington, please. Gov. Kasich i dont care what party you are in. Come on, let me see some applause. Look, we cant be a place in america where we cant find Common Ground with people who may not always share our philosophy or our party preference. We are not a parliamentary system like they have in england. If we want to switch to that, lets change the constitution. Im not for it. Dick was a good man and worked on this. We tried to get a penny out of a dollar and we were fought by everybody. We came very close but we failed. We became the majority, i became the Budget Committee chairman. In writing every single piece of the federal budget, we finally got to a balanced budget agreement. It was the first time we balanced the budget since man walked on the moon. We did it for four years, paid down some of the debt. When i left washington, we had a projected 5 trillion surplus, all of which got spent. I just never thought they could spend that. I thought, that is inconceivable to me. Being governor of ohio, i learned Something Else being an executive. Maybe even being in washington. People want us to spend. It expands government. They are not all that interested in cutting it back. Because there are always Interest Groups that defend what is going on. You have to have a tough spine. You have to be willing to put your neck out there. But in politics, that is what you should be doing. It is a unique profession. It is a place where you should not be in it for a lifetime. You should be in it to do as much good as you can. The best way to do it is to get in and out of politics. That is the best way. Thats really the coolest thing to do. Anyway, i left for 10 years. I worked as an investment banker for lehman brothers. I traveled all over the country. I wrote books, made speeches. And then you all remember when i was a huge Television Star at fox news. Gov. Kasich big. Wasnt i . You dont remember that do you . I have tapes in the car. Ill legend them to you if you could watch. Gov. Kasich then i got a call to go back in. However you feel, youve got to feel. I feel like the lord has blessed me. He has given me opportunity to do many things that never would i have dreamt of living up in that little bluecollar town. My parents always said shoot for the stars, which is what i always tell young people. And really should tell everybody. Now, when you feel like you have been blessed, it means you have to do something back. So i told my wife i was going to go back into politics and run for governor. She said, that is just great. Gov. Kasich so i ran and i won and the place was a total mess. So we have gone from the 8 billion in the hole to 2 billion in the black. To up 3 50,000 jobs 46,000 jobs. 5 billion in tax cuts. Wages have risen faster than the national average. Our credit is strong. We are doing pretty well in ohio. People who live in the shadows, the mentally ill, the drug addicted, the working poor, we are attending to them, as well. Trying to help our minorities to be able to grow. More entrepreneurship to be more successful. I never thought i was going to run for president. I tried this like 16 years ago. I was just very young and inexperienced. I was up here, things were going pretty well, and i was at this house party and i was having this chat with this lady and im thinking, this lady is going to run this town for me. I know it. She looks at her watch, she says what time do you think the candidate is going to get here . Gov. Kasich so i left and here i am back again. I love being back here. I like this process. On thursday, im going to unveil a comprehensive plan to get the country moving forward. It will have to do with fiscal issues, our debt. Balancing budgets. It will have to do with shifting power from washington back to where we live [applause] gov. Kasich it will have to do with putting a halt on regulations. One of the things were going to create is a commonsense court. Where if you are getting hassled by the federal regulator, you will have somewhere to go outside of some government bureaucrat that is going to tell you you lose. We are going to be promoting the comprehensive energy policy, tax policy to provide more economic rowth. All of this is designed to and i probably left something out trade, reforming trade all of this is designed to create Economic Growth to control our spending and to restore prosperity in our country. Now, it will be a pretty comprehensive plan. It will be a blueprint. Ive only been a candidate for slightly over two months. Like maybe two and a half months. We will fill this in as we get farther down the road. For example, i will absolutely have a program that will kill at least one department of the federal government. I already know which one i like. Weve got to work through it. These things are complicated. What i want you to know is we dont have any more time to waste. And trying coming up with something, ideas doesnt matter if you dont get them done. If youve got a program that says we are going to repaint the house this spring, but you dont have any paint, what good does it do . You have to have a program that is practical and you have to have a way to get it done. If you dont get it done, you are nothing more than a clanging bell. Im not interested in that. Id be wasting my time. I know how to get these things done. It is not because im so smart, but its because i have people like the congressmen. Congressman sweat said i will help you deal with entitlements. You have to put teams of people together who want to bring about ig change. So ive done it a bunch of times and i would like to continue to do it to help the country to do better and to make sure that our kids are not continuing to be pushed deeper and deeper into debt. Where we can get a more solid economy so people can work. Work is dignity, isnt it . It is about family. It is about how we feel about ourselves. I think creating jobs is our greatest moral purpose. Government cant but it certainly can create an environment where jobs can happen. So folks, no pie in the sky from me. Reform proposals that i think an pass. I will put the spring work out on thursday that will spell out the first 100 days of the kasich administration. That is hard to say that sometimes. That is a big thought, being president. Some people run for president and they say, ive always wanted to be president. The reason im running for president is because we are back to the blessings and the gifts and i want to give back and help my country. But i do have to tell you, in a funny way, when i was a little kid, we had a Christmas Tree with a little electric train that ran under it and you could put the stuff under the tree. But under that tree was a white house. I was going through my closet the other day and there it was. If i dont win if i dont win, i will just look at it and imagine. Gov. Kasich all right, questions. Who wants to go first . Yes, right there. Im a retired federal employee. As a retired federal employee, i loved my job. Gov. Kasich where did you work . I was an air Traffic Controller. I loved the job, but i did not like the bureaucracy, the inefficiency and the fact that there, unfortunately, were people they worked with that could hide in the shadows because they wncht doing their job. It seems to me that within the government, there are good people and good departments, but there are a lot of people hiding in the shadows that are not doing their job, and i always thought if that could get that in itself would save how would you deal with it . Gov. Kasich no question. First of all, i dont want to get too much into what im going to say on thursday. Come down to the Community College and you will see more. But as we move things out of washington and move them back to the states i will give you one example. We have 100 separate it may be more than 100 separate programs in k through 12 education that comes with springs strings from washington. I propose well bundle them up, send them to the states and youre in charge. Then weve eliminated all this red tape, strings, bureaucracy and everything else. Then you can run it from here and not from washington, right . So as you begin to shift these programs out, you begin to deal with what youre talking about, which is all the strings and the bureaucracy. Heres the other thing, i dont think we should hire any more federal workers. When people retire, dont fill their jobs. In ohio, we have the lowest number of state employees in 30 years. We didnt do it by firing anyone. You really dont want to fire people unless you are doing a really bad job or it is absolutely necessary because what does that achieve, really . Some people have been replaced in ohio. The bulk of it is through attrition. What you do is you just tell people you jump in and you do more. Learn the other persons job. There are two other elements. One, the leadership. Is the leadership inspiring or are they dull, boring, and dont are . Because leadership can motivate people. Finally, we have to figure out a way, which we try to do in ohio, to energize the people who do work in the government. You werent a bad person in there, right . Im glad you feel that way about yourself. Gov. Kasich there is a reality that you are going to need these folks. They get frustrated by what they see. We need to be able to set them loose. Allow them to be more creative, to take more risks. Dont steal the take more risks. Do things that are more aggressive and innovative and fun. Because when people do that then their job has meaning. Suspectsif all they do is go to work and punch a clock. Clock and have no meaning then you have a morale problem. If they have a good idea, tell us what it is. If i say anything, i might lose thats hard to do. Because people are like i dont know. If i say anything, i might lose my job be or you have to give people permission to be who they are. Ok . [applause] was that a tough job being an air Traffic Controller . I think it was a great fit for me. I loved it. I did not think it was a tough job. Gov. Kasich you guided planes down . Yes. Really . Yes. That is really cool. Thank you. Yes, maam. Im an active member of the ministry. Gov. Kasich what church . U. C. C. South church in concord and we just had a conference on the moral obligation to save gods in addition to causes of climate recent we know that extreme droughts and hurricanes and snowstorms. Do you plan to decrease mans impact on Global Warming by preventing the Keystone Pipelines and fracking . Which will increase the Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere. Gov. Kasich i would build the Keystone Pipeline tomorrow, if i could. [applause] gov. Kasich but look. I appreciate what she is saying. What she is saying is we have an environment and, look, i flew in yesterday looking at beautiful New Hampshire with the changing leaves. It is beautiful, beautiful. Im going to be way up in the north country. Beautiful. We dont want to destroy that. We want to take care of it. But we dont want to worship it. Sometimes people leap to conclusions that i think are not accurate. For example, one of the things we want in our country, which i think you agree with, is energy independence. We dont want to rely on regimes in the middle east that are radical. Saudi arabia funds a bunch of radical clerics. We dont want to rely on that. We want to be Energy Independent in north america. We want to reduce the cost of energy in america so we can bring some of that heavy industry back to america. We are beginning to see some of that happen. That doesnt mean that we think that is inconsistent with being good stewards of the environment. Do i think that man has impacted Climate Change . I do. To what degree, the jury is still out. That does not mean we dont Pay Attention to problems like mercury. We do Pay Attention to that. In ohio, we reduced emissions by 30 in the last 10 years. If i leave to judgment and it puts this man out of work, you dont want him out of work. I believe being good stewards of the environment and still having Economic Development is not inconsistent. I also believe we should have renewable energy. Wind, solar. Iam going to have a proposal will have a proposal to put Wind Turbines in front of every state capital in america. The wind is there, we just havent captured it. I think we should clean it but we should burn it. The other thing, being a member of the church, is that we dont want to worship the environment. I want to be a good steward. It is getting better. Fracking, we dont have a methane problem in ohio. Stream. Ground water gov. Kasich we are not doing that. I can have people call you and tell you exactly how we handle it. We have the toughest environmental rules in the state of ohio because it is not inconsistent to be able to frack and have a stable environment. I would rather not put my friends out of work. I think it is great. We will work on it together. Much and we can we steps. Steps we have to be careful about it, but we dont want to go overboard if we dont have all the evidence. The Obama Administration and have a plan to upgrade our new shuttle our Nuclear Arsenal and a cost of approximately 1 trillion. That is a lot of money on weapons we really cant afford. As a taxpayer, i want those trillion dollars spent on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. What would be your priority . Gov. Kasich first of all, there is a lot of assumptions. I am for upgrading our nuclear. Apability it is part of our deterrence. When it comes to the pentagon, i believe that we need to properly fund these weapons system. I dont want to have a nofly zone in syria and not dominate the skies if putin decides he wants to fly a plane in there. We like to think we live in a but we haverld people that want to destroy us. The Nuclear Deterrent is part of our Nuclear Arsenal. It is imperative, as we rebuild the pentagon, that we make sure we make the pentagon efficient. Dont spend any more than what you need on things you dont need because it deprives our men and women in the military of having the resources that they need. The benefit to building these weapons goes to these corporations. Gov. Kasich i could care less about the benefit to a corporation i care about a strong defense. They are lobbying people. Gov. Kasich i was involved in limiting the production of the b2 bomber. The pentagon wants to build 132 and i wanted to build 13 in the result was we built 20. Thatnk you were with me on and you were with me on that and wasson new and john sanu with me on that. I dont really care about the lobbyist. Sometimes they will Say Something that is right, but they dont tell me what to do or my team. The minute you do that, you have lost the moral high ground. Defense is all well and good, but our armed forces have really got the short end of the stick. When we have captains deployed in afghanistan who are getting letters saying you will not be continued in service at the end of your deployment. The potential right now for another 40,000 servicemen to be put on the unemployment rolls because there is no other way to say it, they are being laid off. Beings systems arent upgraded, numeral systems arent being procured. How do you plan to get away from we will collect the militaryindustrial complex in congress, that goes for the big Weapons Systems and ignores the little guy that has to use them. Gov. Kasich when i was limiting the production of the b2, i wanted to take the savings from that to take standoff weapons so that we didnt have to fly the pilots and put them at risk. Secondly, our military has to be lethal but it has to be mobile. I wouldple, i said that never have increased troop levels in afghanistan, i wouldve used special forces to deal with people when we saw them pop up. One of the groups in the i work with them in the area of special forces. I always believed in special forces because that is the future of warfare. That doesnt mean you dont need a strong army. You absolutely have to have a strong army, we are cutting it too low. I believe we have to spend more on defense. On thursday, if you come down to nashua, to the Community College, you will see a number of what i think we need to do over the next 10 years in terms of being able to fit in. We have to have a good defense. We cant be week, we have to be strong. You have to build the things you really need, not something that somebody says, this is a great new system. They have to work. The other thing is i will give you one example. The roadside devices blowing our people up in iraq the military got together and i think in less than two years, they deployed a whole new system. They said we dont care about the red tape and bureaucracy, we need this for our soldiers and they got it. That is ridiculous. We need a lot of common sense back from government. We need common sense on the tax code. Let me tell you Something Else that happens. There were so many overthetop requirements for how you change things. If you streamline a process, somebody writes a story saying there are conflicts and all this other business in these are bad. If we dont cut through the all this stuff, we cant get anything done. We need to streamline not just the pentagon, but the entire government. How about more technology . We are in the 20th century, not the early 20th century. Sometimes i wonder why i am doing this to tell you the truth. The other day we heard a conference about compromise. How do you stand firm on policies that we feel as conservatives are right and should not be compromised on . Gov. Kasich do you have a family . Do you have a husband . Let me start with him. Because i think i know the answer. When you are with your wife, do you get everything you want . Do you ever have to give up anything that you really dont want to give up . You do . Ok. You probably never do, do you . Because i said that, somebody will attack me in the press. Lets also get a sense of humor back in america, ok . Im tired of all this nonsense. Anyway, we somehow separate politics from life. We think that in politics we should never give but in life we give all the time. Do you have children . Ok you have relatives though. Who is coming over for thanksgiving . Life is full of compromises, but you kind of know when that compromise is eroding your principal, dont you . That is the way you have to do it in politics. Ideologue a stubborn that says my way or the highway. Sometimes you have to walk away from the table. Reagan was when meeting with gorbachev and gorbachev said, what we will do wars will get rid of star you get rid of star wars, we will get read of all nuclear weapons. Reagan knew we had to have missiledefense, so you know what he did . You look at gorbachev said, sorry, no and got in the car and left. And the soviet union fell apart because of our economy and technology. In 1995, i was involved in the government sent down because i felt it was our last time to deliver a message to get to a balanced budget. Bill clinton i knew there were enough people there to get the budget balanced. Sometimes, you have to give. You have to put yourself in the shoes of the other person, too. We fundamentally know that we dont need anymore government. We need less government. We know we have to reform the entitlement programs. Were going to have to fix Social Security and there are four or five things we know are. N the table do you raise the retirement age, do you link the payments into how much you get out . Do you go with a prices rather than a prices and wages scale . These are all technical ways in which to fix it. If im going to fix Social Security and i think im going to shove a republican plan through, it isnt going to work. Realize that when people can say to themselves, i am here to serve the country and not me, you get an ability to the road strong feelings for the good of the whole. That is how you run life. Somehow we get people that say, hell no, were not changing. We end up not being able to solve a problem. Sometimes it is no, but it should be no that often. Except rack to deal with my almost 16yearold daughters. Boy, is that a hard one for me. I have to compromise things there because my wife knows a lot better about what we have to do than i do. Could you say that again . Is, in order to do that, you have to win the nomination. There is a guy up there now, the front runner, and he keeps. Hooting his mouth off i heard on fox news and some other stations that a person like yourself or maybe jeb bush and some of the other candidates were talking about their record, what they have done in the past. I have heard you a few times and you have the next linda record in ohio. I think it is great. But i think that they want to hear what you are going to do if you are the president. And i think that right now it is so important, the country is in such bad shape, that we need someone like yourself. In order to do that, you have to win the nomination. I think it needs to be shaken up what is going on. Maybe some of the proposals, some of the things you want to do, they are good things, but you are going to have to make it gov. Kasich yellen from the housetop. Were going to release things on thursday. This is a very interesting process. National polls dont mean all that much. The only time they matter is when you are trying to get people to give you money and they ask if you can win. Lets talk about how you build a political campaign. Lets talk about how you build a house. Do you go to the top floor of spindly that if something happens and the wind blows, the house collapses. My 19thmpshire, this is or 20th town hall meeting. We are building it from the ground up. Some of it is true in iowa. Work. Hard you cant Pay Attention to all im not going to say anything to get everybody all stoked up so i can get your vote. Then i would not be true to myself. Im going to go through this campaign as best i can raising the bar then lowering the bar because i will just give you an idea. One of the people, without mentioning his name, came out with a tax plan. It puts us 11 trillion in the hole with no way to pay for it. That will be known over time, i think. Right now, i think we are in the American Idol quarterfinals. Ultimately, it gets down to fewer. I appreciate what you are saying. Be talking about not only what i have done but a lot of the things that i am for. People need to know what it is i would like to do. I appreciate what you are saying. You have seen the white house gov. Kasich i havent seen it for a while. When youre in the white house, can you take a little piece of the zone with it . Gov. Kasich you want to come down and visit . I will give you five minutes in the oval office. Senator Gordon Humphrey is here. He is a great one, isnt he . Plain talk, truthful talk. Gov. Kasich you have heard me now for long enough. Havent i been plain enough . Iis the other thing learned this when i got to be governor more than when i was a congressman. Tone matters a lot. You want to bring people together. Think wee things i need most in this country is to reignite the spirit of citizenship. Isnt that really what matters our country . The country is not great from the top down but good from the bottom up. I have never been accused of being weak or confusing. As so always been viewed strong. Early on in my career, when i first got elected governor it is sort of funny how things turn i was invited to speak to a group of lobbyists, specialInterest Groups. I dont often think said were going to have to do a lot of change here in ohio. A lot of groups are going to fight change. Let me explain to you. You either get on the bus or were going to run you over with the bus. That is pretty direct. The media went and distorted it like i was talking to the people. I wasnt talking to the people, i was talking to the specialInterest Groups standing in the way of what we need to do to fix our precious state of ohio. Some of them, we had a run over with the boss. Election. , i had an 86 out of 88 counties. I won a county that barack obama won. I got 56 of Union Households and i won by over 30 points. We are still trying to figure out those two counties. We are not. But i think it happens because we are stronger economically and people feel they are excluded. We as adults are helping our children to be stronger and believe in themselves. We have to be fighting the. Courge of drug abuse , talked to a guy this morning he told me his son got on. Cstasy, the drug they searched high and low, in homeless shelters. They found his remains in New Hampshire. He had been hit by a car and killed and they found his remains. This sky and talking to, he says, i want to show you a picture. He took me into his office and showed me a picture of his son, and then he showed me a bag of refills he needs for his wife who had a breakdown when they found the sun. We have to figure out how to help them. Be polarized. Love one another, get along with one another. That is why i want to be a good leader. I can take one more and then i have to go. I have so many more miles to go before i sleep. I should write to that as a poem. I would like to say thank you for coming. The last eight years, this government has put more people out of work, put them on medicare, medicaid, free phones, free this, that, and the other, and i think it has damaged our country a lot. Many people do not want to work for a living. Governor kasich my mother had a great motto, and i follow it. It is practical. It is a sin not to help people who needs help, but is equally a sin to continue to help people who need to learn how to help themselves. When we help able, we want to demand personal responsibility, because it is not fair to the people who are out there scraping and working to get by. Nobody but grudges help to somebody who really needs it, but you cannot go on forever. We need to help them get up and to get walking and to be successful and become good role models for their kids. Some people it is harder to help than others. I just got to tell you, you grow up in a neighborhood, you will not see it in bow, but in some of our areas, including ohio, there are kids that wake up in the morning and all they hear our gunshots. These are kids we got to help, get them on their feet. Everybody is made in the image of the lord. Everybody has worth. To coddle coddle is not the right word, but to give and not ask for something back. In my state, if you get food stamps, you got to work 20 hours a week. Unless it is a high area of unemployment, if youre ablebodied, there are exceptions to it, but if you are ablebodied, you got to do some work for it. Some of the groups who are my friends do not like it. , they think that is harsh. I do not think it is harsh at all. You can do something for what you get from somebody else. So anyway, i think it is a mixture. Here is the thing i would like welfare to be run basically in the states, so your values can run the Welfare Program in New Hampshire and our values in the Buckeye State can be there. Lets forget this onesizefitsall and make sure that we can give people power to shape a lot of things where they live, from the bottom up, rather than the top down. So nice to be here. I have to go. And i hope that you can sign up, so thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [indiscernible] what specific cuts in federal spending . I just retired from the oil business. I get a little excited when i hear questions like the one you are asked. Fracking in we are ohio and we manage it. People want energy independence, i agree. Do you support banning abortions with no restrictions . I support life of the mother and insist. Those of the only exceptions . Gov. Kasich the three of them. Rape, incest, and life of the mother. I am for abortion only in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Thank you. Are you aware that someone said trump would have you as his running mate . Gov. Kasich thats nice. All right, we got to go. [indiscernible] governor kasich you did