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If you want to know about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that has animated them throughout their life, whether they were in office or out, whether they were winning elections or losing them.
Tim Kaine
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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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For anybody whose family, you know, probably came from somewhere else a few generations to say, OK, but now we're going to put up the drawbridge and not let anybody else in, I don't think that's in accord with the values of America.
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In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.
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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 am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.
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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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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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The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.
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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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The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.
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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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I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.
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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 will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.
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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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It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.
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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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Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.
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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.
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