What did John Kasich say? A look back at some of his best lines

His State of the State speeches often last longer than an hour, and he often speaks without a planned script.

Here are some of the more controversial, unorthodox and evangelical remarks from Kasich:

People from California are "wackadoodles."

“A year ago, Ohio ranked 48th in job creation,” Kasich said at the 2012 State of the State address. “We trailed only Michigan and California in lost jobs — Michigan, the home of the auto industry that was devastated and California, of course, filled by a bunch of wackadoodles.”

He has a “hot wife.”

“And I also want to give a nice comment about my wife, Karen Kasich,” he said at the 2012 State of the State address. “Sweetie, stand, take a little wave, would you, OK? I remember that cartoon that said, ‘Kasich will still not reveal how he snagged that hot wife.’”

Spouses of political figures are usually "at home doing the laundry."

At a September 2012 Mitt Romney rally, Kasich said: “It’s not easy to be a spouse of an elected official. You know, they’re at home, doing the laundry and doing so many things while we’re up here on the stage getting a little bit of applause, right? They don’t often share in it. And it is hard for the spouse to hear the criticism and to put up with the travel schedule and to have to be at home taking care of the kids.”

A police officer who pulled him over is "an idiot."

While addressing 1,200 Ohio EPA employees on Jan. 21, 2011, on the importance of treating the public with respect, Kasich recounted how Columbus Police Officer Robert Barrett ticketed him in January 2008 on an Ohio road:

“Have you ever been stopped by a policeman who was an idiot?" Kasich asked. "I had this idiot pull me over on 315.” Kasich told the crowd that the officer gave him a ticket and saidthe officer told him, “'You must report to court. If you don’t report to court, we’re putting a warrant out for your arrest.’ He’s an idiot. We just can’t act that way, and what people resent are people who are in government who don’t treat the client with respect.”

He used St. Peter to encourage changes to Medicaid.

“I said, ‘I respect the fact that you believe in small government. I do too,” Kasich told reporters in June 2013 as he recalled a conversation with a legislator whom he did not name. "'I also know that you’re a person of faith. Now when you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor. You better have a good answer.’”

"If you’re not on the bus, we’ll run over you with the bus."

Two days after winning the 2010 Ohio governor’s race, Kasich told a room full of lobbyists and journalists not to stand in his way: “If you’re not on the bus, we’ll run over you with the bus. And I’m not kidding.”

He's like porridge.

He told a New Hampshire voter who was torn between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton that she should consider voting for him because he’s the right temperature … like porridge.

“I’m the right porridge. One of them is too hot, the other is too cold. I’ve got the right temperature.”

He probably likes pop music.

"I don't know about you, but I've got a feeling, I've got a feeling. And it's (not just because) I like the Black Eyed Peas. I've got a feeling that we're about to elect the next president of the United States of America," he said at the 2012 Republican National Convention.