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

Tim Kaine

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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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I am extremely energized to be in the Senate, because the Senate is the only emergency brake on the Trump train right now. And we have to use that emergency brake in a smart way to keep him from hurting our country, our reputation, our values, and our citizens.
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I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow people to make their own choices.
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My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
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I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just no on everything.
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Vladimir Putin is a dictator.
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I can be president of the United States, and if I can do that, I can do anything.
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Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.
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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.
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I accept the teachings of my own church in terms of how I live, how my wife and I live, what we teach our kids. But I don't think the teachings of my church are such that I should legislate that for everybody else.
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You spend your time blaming the other for what's not getting done and you actually do a couple things, and then you switch to, Hey, let's instead compete about who gets the credit for what we just did. And that's a lot more fun.
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Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing?
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I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.
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The lessons of history show - and I'm not talking about any particular history, all history - when you see minor abuses start to build up in the intolerance space and do nothing about them, then they lead to bigger and bigger abuses.
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Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.
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If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.
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