Tim Kaine Quotes

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

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.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

I worry that a Trump presidency doesn't show the true face of America to the world, but I think that peaceful protest all around this country, it showed to the world who we really are.

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.

Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Mike Pence did ask this question about debt and the debt explosion on the [Donald] Trump plan is much, much bigger than anything on the [Hillary] Clinton side.

Peace should be our future.

Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

Bill of Rights was Madison, I'm going with Madison.

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

I support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscious, their own support of partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy.

You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.

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.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

Hillary Clinton and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice.