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It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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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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Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.
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You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.
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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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The great presidents are people who watch out for others.
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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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In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.
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I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just no on everything.
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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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A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.
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I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.
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I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life, but I don't believe in America, a first amendment nation, where we don't raise any religion over the other, and we allow people to worship they please, that the doctrines of any religion should be mandated for everyone.
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