Mike DeWine
To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.Collection: Leadership
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.
I'm for the fracking. I think it's an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.
Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.
As a young prosecutor, I used the Bureau of Criminal Investigation extensively. I saw that there were problems with BCI. Frankly, I thought I could fix them. I thought if I was successful, I could really make a difference as attorney general.
I've served Ohioans starting as a county prosecutor in 1976 for, for 30 years. I think they know my integrity. I think they know my honesty. I think they knew who, who I am.
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.
It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.
In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.
You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.
Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.
Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.
I do not have the luxury of deciding which provisions of the Ohio Constitution to defend.
What the American people really want to know is if Jeff Sessions is going to be a good attorney general. Is he going to protect my family? Is he going to make my community safer? The answer is clearly yes.
Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.
On my first day in office as Ohio attorney general, I authorized Ohio to join the multistate lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare.
Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress the power to impose an individual insurance mandate.
Obamacare is, quite simply, the federal version of Romneycare.
I found, in the Senate, you can have significant impact whether you're in the minority party or the majority party, and a lot of it goes back to... that you really have to be able to count to 60.
Kids are important.
Elections are about the future and not about the past.
My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.
Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.
You have to give people a reason to believe that, under your leadership, America will be better. Rick Santorum has done that.
Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.
The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.
I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.
Sherrod Brown, in the House, was one of 66 members of the House to vote against the Patriot Act, and he continues to vote against the Patriot Act, to deny our law enforcement the tools they need to go against terror.
I was sent to Washington by the people of the state of Ohio. We have a diverse state. I am advocate and a fighter for this state.
On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.Collection: Journey
Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.Collection: Jobs
I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.Collection: Children
Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them down. In most cases, the court performs this admirably and with great restraint.Collection: Running
After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.Collection: People
It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .Collection: Epidemics
The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation.Collection: Decision
Im for the fracking. I think its an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.Collection: Jobs
If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.Collection: Balance
Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.Collection: Play
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.Collection: Becoming
In my opinion, Chief Justice Roberts put it best during his recent confirmation hearings. And he said, and I quote, "The framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government to sit down and say, 'Well, let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.' That would have been the farthest thing from their mind," however, I fear that the Supreme Court forgets this advice.Collection: Issues
When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.Collection: Play
When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our Constitution is interpreted and who will have the privilege to do so.First, we elect a president who has the power to nominate justices to the Supreme Court.Second, the people, acting through their representatives in the Senate, have their say on whether the president's nominee should in fact be confirmed.Collection: Two
This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.Collection: Epidemics
There is no place in Ohio where you couldn't have drugs delivered to you in 15, 20 minutes.Collection: Ohio