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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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I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.
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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'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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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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You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
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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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Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.
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I am a Bob Dylan fan.
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My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
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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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I think we need to fight against Trumpism in the courts, we need to fight at the ballot box and online, and we need to do peaceful protesting. We need to use every lever at our disposal to make sure that the president doesn't hurt our country, our values, and our people.
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The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.
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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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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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Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea.
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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 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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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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I can be president of the United States, and if I can do that, I can do anything.
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