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Thinking Quotes by Tim Kaine

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Tim Kaine urges people to follow their moral values but warns against laws that punish women for reproductive choices. He says criticism is stronger when it offers alternatives instead of just saying no. He also calls for peaceful protest and legal action to push back against Trump‑style politics.

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I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

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

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I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

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I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

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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 talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

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

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I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

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If you think, what was the last really big, big accomplishment for the nation that came purely out of the legislature? It…

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I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow…

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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…

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I think there are a lot of opportunities in the Americas that matter deeply to 45 million Latinos in this country, and…

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I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have…

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I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just…

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The Trump plan is a different plan. It's a you're fired plan. And there's two key elements to it. First, Donald Trump…

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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…

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Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some…

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I think you should live your moral values. But the last thing, the very last thing that government should do is have…

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The Trump administration has done some bad stuff in the international realm, picking needless fights with allies like Mexico and Australia, even…

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Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the…

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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…

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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…

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Donald Trump always puts himself first. He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off…

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We support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscience, their own supportive partner, their own minister, but then…

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

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I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

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If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and…

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One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart…

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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…

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I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's…

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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…

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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…

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I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our…

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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…

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I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have…

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I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting…

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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…

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It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a…

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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that…

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is…

America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had…

Bill of Rights was Madison, I'm going with Madison.

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

The Trump campaign management team had to be fired a month or so ago because of those shadowy connections with pro-Putin forces. Governor Pence…

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

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

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

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a…

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.