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I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just no on everything.

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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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Gay individuals should be able to adopt.
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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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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.
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Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.
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I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.
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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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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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If somebody comes before me and I think that they will do a good job in fulfilling the mission - even if I might not have nominated them - if I think they're gonna do a good job, I vote for 'em.
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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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The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else, if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.
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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 ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.
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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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You know, boy, America is a closely divided country.
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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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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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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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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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I worry that a Trump presidency doesn't show the true face of America to the world, but I think that peaceful protest all around this country, it showed to the world who we really are.
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Despair is a natural emotion.
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