Two Paths, by John Kasich: on Drugs

John Kasich: Presidents can't solve drug problem; local communities can

I said, "Let me ask you something. What are you doing to fix the drug problem?" I had stopped at a baseball game on my way to the event and asked this man if there was an anti-drug message delivered to those kids before the game. I asked if the local schoolteachers were warning kids of the dangers of drugs. I asked if whatever church or civic group this man belonged to was taking on the drug problem as an important part of its mission. I said, "So, what do you think?" I'm going to fly in here on Air Force One and fix your drug problem? YOU have to fix your drug problem."

The folks at that town hall seemed to get that the solutions to some of the very real problems facing the country were on them--AND they got that I was passionate about this.

John Kasich: If we all marched against drugs, we'd win that battle

KASICH: I was in Atlanta for Martin Luther King Day. And somebody asked, "what about Trump?" I said, "well, what about your neighbor? What about your kids?" MLK did not change America by going to the big shots. They wouldn't even meet with him. He brought [together people] who had moral outrage of what was happening in this country, and then the politicians got it.

Q: But MLK marched for racial equality and jobs. What is the march today?

KASICH: Right now in Columbus, we should be marching against the scourge of drugs. And it brings people together even in the political parties, the fight against drugs. The ability to keep our eyes open and to do things against the issue of human trafficking. The issue of racism. In my hometown, if we all marched against drugs, we'd begin to win that battle. People sometimes look at the problems and they think they're so big that I'm just one little person.