These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

I'm not a plotter or a schemer. I'm a guy that looks at problems and tries to solve them, which I have done all of my career, creating jobs in Washington, creating jobs in Ohio.

People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep the people of my state safe. So we take a pause [in taking refugees].

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.