I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.
A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That’s what we need to do.
I can’t work any harder. I can’t do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they’re working. I think they’ve got a sense that they’re going to be part of something bigger than themselves.
But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we’re a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.
I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won’t get done, unfortunately, for our country.
There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.
I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.
Im a believer in bipartisanship.
I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can’t find a job.
I’m an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.
Say, oh well, the Republicans don’t like this therefor I shouldn’t do it. What kind of a government would that be. We’re not a parliamentary system.
You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.
I don’t think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it’s a whole new paradigm.
We still have systems we don’t need, we have infrastructure we don’t need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.
Let’s think about how we can bring economic development, let’s see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.
I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio ’s coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
For heaven’s sake, this is 2015. I’ve run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
We have to be tolerant of other people’s points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.
Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.