Mike DeWine Quotes

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.

Some have even suggested that this recent trend has transformed our democracy from one founded on, "We the people," to one ruled by, "We the court."

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure them out.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation.

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.

The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.

There is no place in Ohio where you couldn't have drugs delivered to you in 15, 20 minutes.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.