Tim Kaine Quotes

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

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

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.

I support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscious, their own support of partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy.

I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices.

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.

Absolutely without firing a shot and instead of 175,000 American troops deployed overseas we now have 15,000.

I am not taking anything for granted.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.

Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.

In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

I can be president of the United States, and if I can do that, I can do anything.

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

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

I am a lover, not a fighter.

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

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.

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.

Donald Trump has encouraged Russians to cyber-hack the United States to give him an edge in an election. And that just shows how serious and seriously misguided Donald Trump is.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

I'm not a Hillary Clinton defender. I'm a Hillary Clinton promoter.

Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.

If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.