John Kasich in Meet the Press interviews during 2018

On Welfare & Poverty: Our essence was putting yourself in somebody else's shoes

KASICH: I don't know; what's true today is not true a couple hours from now. So you can't predict where this country's going, because it's chaotic. People know there's something wrong with our compass and they really want it fixed.

Q: How has America changed to cause that?

KASICH: I think many people have been increasingly unwilling to put themselves in the shoes of somebody else. I think what's fundamentally changed our country is that many people have not come to understand what faith is, which is loving your neighbor, elevating others, putting yourself in other people's shoes. And when we don't do that, we lose the essence of our country. In the Great Depression, everybody pulled together. And what we're seeing now is people pulling apart rather than coming together.