John Kasich in Fox Business 2015 GOP primary debate

On Budget & Economy: Economic theory is fine, but people need help

On Corporations: Never let depositors lose their bank deposits

A: Absolutely not!

KASICH: When a bank is ready to go under and depositors are getting ready to lose their life savings, you just don't say we believe in philosophical concerns. You know what an executive has to decide? When there are financial crises, you got to go there and try to fix it. Philosophy doesn't work when you run something.

CRUZ: Why would you then bail out rich Wall Street banks, but not Main street?

KASICH: I wouldn't.

I would not let the people who put their money in there all go down.

CRUZ: So you would bail them out.

KASICH: I would figure out how to separate those people who can afford it versus the hard-working folks who put those money in those institutions.

On Energy & Oil: 20,000 jobs from fracking plus 300,000 other jobs

KASICH: In the state of Ohio, we have grown 347,000 jobs. Our unemployment is half of what it was. Our fracking industry, energy industry may have contributed 20,000, but if Mr. Trump understood that the real jobs come in the downstream, not in the upstream, but in the downstream. And that's where we're going to get our jobs. But Ohio is diversified.

On Foreign Policy: China doesn't own the South China Sea; show US Navy there

KASICH: China doesn't own the South China Sea, and I give the president some credit for being able to move a naval force in there to let the Chinese know that we're not going to put up with it any more.

On Free Trade: TPP is a strategic alliance against China

KASICH: TPP, it's critical to us, not only for economic reasons and for jobs, because there are so many people who are connected to getting jobs because of trade, but it allows us to create not only economy alliances, but also potentially strategic alliances against the Chinese. They are not our enemy, but they are certainly not our friend.

On Health Care: We reduced Medicaid funding by 7.5% with no benefit cuts

On Immigration: It's a silly argument to ship 11M illegals back to Mexico

KASICH: In 1986 Ronald Reagan basically said the people who were here, if they were law-abiding, could stay. But, what didn't happen is we didn't build the walls effectively and we didn't control the border. We need to control our border. But if people think that we are going to ship 11 million people who are law-abiding, who are in this country, and somehow pick them up at their house and ship them out to Mexico, think about the families. Think about the children. So, you know what the answer really is? If they have been law-abiding, they pay a penalty. They get to stay. We protect the wall. Anybody else comes over, they go back. But for the 11 million people, come on, folks. We all know you can't pick them up and ship them across, back across the border. It's a silly argument. It is not an adult argument. It makes no sense.

On Jobs: I created jobs in Congress & in Ohio; let's make it thrice

I've been an innovator my entire career. And I really don't care what special interests or lobbyists have to say. I have a job to do when I take over a public office. Now, we freeze non-defense discretionary for eight years. We also put an increase in defense spending. Our tax cuts balance out. And at the end of the day, we will get to a balanced budget.

And I want everybody here to know, when I was Budget Committee chairman in Washington, I stepped on every toe in that town, and we got to a balanced budget, and we had enormous job growth. And as governor of Ohio, we went from 350,000 lost jobs to a gain of 347,000 jobs. I'll do it in Washington. I've done it twice; I'll do it thrice for the United States of America.

On Jobs: When you balance the budget & cut taxes, people get work

On Principles & Values: Capitalism needs values to avoid unfettered greed

On Principles & Values: Conservative government will rebuild American from bottom up

On War & Peace: Work with allies like Israel, Egypt, Jordan