Tim Kaine Quotes
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The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly, people see these issues as probably the clearest window into somebody's temperament, their judgment, whether they're steady or volatile.
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Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.
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It's immoral to ask people to risk their life.
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I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.
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We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.
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Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.
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Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.
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I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.
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I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a national security adviser, Mike Flynn, who is a pro-Russia conspiracy theorist, and he's just put Steve Bannon, a guy with connections to white supremacy and antisemitism, onto the National Security Council.
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Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.
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You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
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Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.
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Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
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I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.
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I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.
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The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.
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Hillary and I will do immigration enforcement and we'll vet refugees based on whether they're dangerous or not. We won't do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you practice.
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Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber stamp. But what these guys are doing is, "Wait a minute, we don't have to vote yes or no, and maybe we can trick our voters into not holding us accountable for not voting yes or no."
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You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.
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Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.
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Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.
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I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.
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I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.
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Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin.
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If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.
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I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our own views for everybody else in society regardless of their views.
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Trump loves dictators. He's got kind of a personal Mount Rushmore, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein. And last and most dangerously, Donald Trump believes - Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons.
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I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.
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Peace should be our future.
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The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.
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