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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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St Paul
Minnesota
Timothy Michael Tim Kaine
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You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
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If you just fight against everything willy-nilly, then the message is you're just gonna obstruct on anything. I would rather fight very, very hard on matters of fundamental principle and then have the critique be that Trump is violating the very foundations of America.
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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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In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.
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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.
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When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it.
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It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.
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Vladimir Putin is a dictator.
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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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A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.
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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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As much as we may have to battle against a Trump presidency, there's still good relationships within the Senate, bipartisan relationships where we can work together.
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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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When I was running for governor, I was attacked pretty strongly because of my position on the death penalty. But I looked the voters of Virginia in the eye and said, look, this is my religion. I'm not going to change my religious practice to get one vote, but I know how to take an oath and uphold the law. And if you elect me, I will uphold the law.
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The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else, if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.
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One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart is on his sleeve, and that's one of the things people love about him.
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Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger.
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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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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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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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