c-span.org. >> republican presidential candidate, governor john kasich of ohio, spoke on thursday at the new york city republican annual gala event. his remarks are about 20 minutes. [applause] gov. kasich: thank you. what a dinner. and they are going to serve, because i thought it would be better to move the program along. and, you gave me a round of applause for that, i know you are all hungry. i heard the donald talking about new york values, so i thought i would tell you at the beginning of this how i feel about new

york values. first of all, i think i have eaten my way across the entire state of new york, and have eaten every type of food there is very i really do believe that the folks in new york will forgive me for that big mistake i made when i had a scolding fork,of pizza and took a but i do know how to eat pizza. i want to tell you how i feel about this town. more importantg to you than your wife and your kids, to me. my wife and i love to come to new york. but i have twin daughters, and maybe some of you saw them on anderson cooper the other night. they did a great job, my wife and daughters stole the show. but my daughters, when we go on a special visit, when dad takes them on a trip, i bring them to new york city. the reason why i come here is

because frankly, you are so alive when you are in new york. the fact is, you don't want to sleep when you were in new york. the reason you don't want to sleep is because you are afraid you will miss something. and things are always happening that are so fantastic three it just makes you a live. i have had a great time being here. as a candidate for the united states, what is so amazing to on my father carried mail his back, he delivered mail for 29 years. my father was the kind of guy who knew everything that was going on in the neighborhood or son scored a touchdown, he would celebrate but if theyhers, lost somebody, he would cry in their homes with them. my father kept the neighborhood

and the community together. , andather was a coal miner my grandfather would go down in the coal mines, and work all day long. hall -- haulg his up at the end of the day, expecting decent pay. but they would say you brought enoughh peat and not coal, so my grandfather would not get paid the money he should have been paid. you know who we complained to? my grandfather could not complain to anybody because nobody cared. could barelyother speak english, she was from yugoslavia, an immigrant. and my mother was one of four kids. three of them never got out of the eighth grade. but my mother was a person who got her high school degree by walking over a foot bridge across railroad tracks to try to make something of herself.

and my mother and father gave me these great values. my father was a democrat all his lifetime, my mother became a republican later in life area the town where i grew up, if the wind blew the wrong way, people found themselves out of work. so you should know that i am a candidate for president that really understands the anxieties of people who live in this country. dna, son of a got blue-collar worker. here is something we should think about. there,re anxieties out people are worried they are going to lose their job. that they concerned are not getting wage increases. people are upset because they were told that if you give your are going bank, you to get paid for the fact that

the bank uses your money, it is called interest. and we have not been getting much of that, either. i think mom and as the greatest isry, beyond their own job, the fact that their sons and daughters have gone on to get more education. for everyone sitting in this room, you remember that your mother and father said you need more education. so these kids go off to college, debt, and theye are hopeful of the future, but we find many of them still living at home with their parents. this has created tremendous anxiety in people. the job insecurity, the lack of wages, the fact that they are not getting a fair shake. we hear politicians talk about it, but i grew up with it. way,e wind blew the wrong

people found themselves out of work. and that is how i have come to know that the most important thing a public official can do is create economic growth and prosperity in the neighborhoods. [applause] let me say a couple things about this anxiety. to payomething we need close attention to in this election season. paths.lly have two and iou go into a room, have been doing this all across the country, and you realize people's anxieties, and you come to understand that their anxieties, you have two choices. you can either go into that room and tell them how bad everything is, you can tell them the country is in decline, you can tell them that they have been ripped off, you can feed on their anxiety and cause anger and division, paranoia, and even

hatred. or, you can walk into that same room, and you can recognize the struggles and problems and andeties that people have, talk to them about how we solve those problems. solutionsthere are that can give them hope, can improve their lives, and the lives of their children. we can do that by taking a positive approach. to all of you,st when we live in the dark, when we practice politics in the dark, over time, people do not like it. people want to know that there are solutions. over the course of this campaign, many people said, why does kasich continue to talk about what he used to do? when the public looks at a politician whose lips are moving, they figure that politician is line.

i am a citizen myself, and when people come to tell me about what they want to do and why i want to be elected, they say what have you done in your life? how can i believe you? how do we know you can deliver the goods? i want to tell you, as a public official, and i have been in politics for a very long time, my mines i is about helping people where i grew up, or the people in brooklyn, or queens. there are people searching for a fair shake, and they want to know that a promise can be kept. a congressman at the age of 30. i was the only republican in america that deputed and incumbent democrat that year. iran on the reagan agenda. nobody wanted to appear with reagan in 1982, and i did. i got to spend more time with him, and nobody wanted to

associate, because reaganomics had not yet begun to kick in. i spentinto congress, 18 years of my career on national security issues. six years into my term in congress, i got on the budget committee. i figured something out as a very young man. we have $19 trillion now in debt, $225 billion goes to pay the interest on the debt. think about taking $100 billion of that and investing it into solving the problems of alzheimer's, dementia, pancreatic cancer, or childhood disease, [applause] debt keeps rising. when i go to college campuses, i tell them to look at the rising debt. we have a debt clock that shows us over $19 trillion. i tell them, when the debt goes up, your opportunities to get a job goes down. comes down, your

opportunities to get a job goes up. if you think about bernie and hillary, by the time they are done giving away free stuff, it will be up to $30 trillion, and nobody will get a job. that is why you have to stop them. [applause] thought -- thought with my own party, spent 10 years of my life to get us to a balanced budget. and at the end of the day, i did. i negotiated the agreement with the clinton administration, we had a balanced budget for the first time since man walked on the moon. we pay down half $1 trillion of the national debt, cut down capital gains, and the economy was growing like crazy, and there was no discussion of income inequality, or the problem of no white -- rising wages, because the country used a formula to cut taxes, and strengthen the government, which give confidence to job creators in this country.

[applause] and then i left washington. i went to the private sector, to learn about how it really works. and then i decided i needed to run for governor. and i got elected at exactly the right time. because our state could not get much worse. hold, most8 billion of our operating budget was in the hole. we lost 350,000 jobs. the state was polarized, and had lost hope. regulations, that do not rate the backs of small businesses are what i promoted. incentives to grow, and a path to the balanced budget. we went from a range of 50,000 lost jobs, to a gain of almost 420,000 new jobs. by $5 billion, more than any governor in the country.

our wages are going up faster than the national average, and i want you to know, we have left no one behind. [applause] we have left no one behind. we do not believe that the ought to be living under a bridge, or that drug addicted lives ought to be ignored. we want a system for the working poor, where a single mom with a couple kids can actually get ahead with a pay raise, rather than losing her childcare and going farther backward. let's have a party held people get out of party, not be stuck in poverty in this country. people get out of poverty, not be stuck in poverty in this country. my vision going

forward of dealing with federal regulations and cutting business taxes and individual taxes and balancing the federal budget, because of the efforts to keep people together and remind people in this country they are americans before they are republicans or democrats, there been a series of political polls conducted. i am the only candidate who beats hillary clinton on a consistent basis, every single time. [applause] every time. yesterday, the electoral college had a calculation applied to it, and guess what happened? who arecandidates running at the same time i am got swamped by hillary clinton. college, i electoral won over hillary clinton. i want to ask you something. if you feed on the negative attides of people, you will

have negative ratings. don't try to sell something when people do not like you and they do not trust you. try to sell something when you have a positive record and a record of accomplishment. do you know what will happen if we nominate people who have high negatives and cannot beat hillary? we will not just lose the white court,r the supreme there is a good chance your senate majority leader will be the senate minority leader because we risk losing everything from the white house to the courthouse to the statehouse if we do not advance messageve, uplifting, to this country. that is what we need to do. [applause] pie in the sky. of pulling a record

the country together, improving its national security reputation and the strength of our military, and at the same time, rebuilding the economy of the united dates of america, so that america's greatest legacy, our children, will do better than the america we inherited from our parents, and be real. it can be realized. i am about done here, and just want to tell you this. i have enjoyed being all across this state. i will be campaigning here. in fact, i don't know whether you heard, but governor george president,rsed me as and he will be campaigning across this state and country for me, and we are going to go to a convention. saying it for months. and when we get to that convention, and when the delegates enter the hall, because i was there in 76, and i thought a convention that was

contested. the delegates will think about two things. number one, who can win in the fall? about who can win a nomination, this is about who can defeat hillary clinton. and number two, because of the importance those delegates are going to inherit at that convention, they are also going to ask themselves, who, at the end of the day has the experience and the record and the ability to bring this country together? who can be the best president of the united states. i maintain to you, i will leave cleveland as the nominee. it will happen. thank you new york, i love you. [applause] >> also speaking at the republican fundraiser in new york city on thursday, republican presidential candidate senator ted cruz of texas. new york hold its presidential primaries next tuesday. senator