Quote

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.

Tim Kaine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
Lawyer
Missionary
Politician
United States Senator
University Teacher
St Paul
Minnesota
Timothy Michael Tim Kaine
Timothy Michael Kaine
Timothy Kaine
Timothy M. Kaine
Timothy M Kaine
United
States
Suggest
Back
Citizen
Think
African
Thinking
Painful
Citizens
Days
American

More quotes by Tim Kaine

Image
You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.
Tim Kaine
Image
If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine
Image
I am not taking anything for granted.
Tim Kaine
Image
To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine
Image
My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
Tim Kaine
Image
You spend your time blaming the other for what's not getting done and you actually do a couple things, and then you switch to, Hey, let's instead compete about who gets the credit for what we just did. And that's a lot more fun.
Tim Kaine
Image
I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
Tim Kaine
Image
I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow people to make their own choices.
Tim Kaine
Image
I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.
Tim Kaine
Image
If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.
Tim Kaine
Image
Absolutely without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 American troops deployed overseas we now have 15,000.
Tim Kaine
Image
I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine
Image
I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine
Image
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.
Tim Kaine