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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.

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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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Gay individuals should be able to adopt.
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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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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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Despair is a natural emotion.
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I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.
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No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.
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I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.
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I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.
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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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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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To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.
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When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.
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