Meet the Press interviews during 2018: on Welfare & Poverty

John Kasich: 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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Democratic Socialism: no American should be too poor to live

OCASIO-CORTEZ: There's so much focus on this endorsement [but it's just one part of a] broad-based coalition of people.

Q: What is your definition of democratic socialist?

OCASIO-CORTEZ: In a modern, moral and wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. And to me, that means every working class American in this country should have access to dignified health care without going broke. It means you should be able to send your kids to college and trade school if they so choose. And no person should feel precarious in their access to housing.

Q: Older Americans hear "the S word" and they tie it to ugly governments from Europe and the past.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Democrats are a big tent party. I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all several hundred members of Congress. It's not about selling an -ism or an ideology or a label or a color. This is about selling our values.