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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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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents. And both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship. So if you're born here, but your parents don't have documents, they want to eliminate that. That's another 4.5 million people.
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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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I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.
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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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I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.
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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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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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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 will always be a partner with the president of the United States.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.
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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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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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I am a Bob Dylan fan.
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Absolutely without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 American troops deployed overseas we now have 15,000.
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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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