Tim Kaine Quotes

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

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.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart is on his sleeve, and that's one of the things people love about him.

No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.

I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.

America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.

To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid out in the Declaration of Independence and since.

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.

We all have opinions and I don't think you need to apologize for your opinions.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.

You know, boy, America is a closely divided country.

I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.

In life, success begets success.

It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.

We need to work on drug costs, and there's things we can work on on drug costs, especially Medicare Part D, to bring drug costs down.

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.

I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.

Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.

We should let women make their own decisions.

Americans need to worry about whether Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.

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.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

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.

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.

I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

Donald Trump's blaming the media, he's blaming the GOP, he's saying that America can't run a fair election. He is swinging at every phantom of his own imagination because he knows he's losing.

The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.

To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas.

Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

Americans need to worry about whether Donald Trump will be watching out for America's bottom line or his own bottom line.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger.

Americans are a nation of immigrants.

We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, we trust her with the most important thing in our life.

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

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.

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.

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.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.

People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement.

If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.

Hillary Clinton and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice.