Latest Tim Kaine Quotes from Interviews

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• We should let women make their own decisions.

  Tim Kaine

  Decision

  "Kaine, Pence Trade Views On Abortion In Vice Presidential Debate". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

• 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.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Important

  "Hurricane Matthew Hammered Haiti, Eastern Cuba; Pence & Kaine Spar Over Abortion Rights; Philippines President Tells Obama To 'Go To Hell'". "New Day", www.cnn.com. October 5, 2016.

• Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

  Tim Kaine

  Leader, President, President Obama

  "Kaine, Pence Clash in V.P. Debate; Pence Repeatedly Denies Trump's Past Statements; Hurricane Matthew Bearing Down on East Coast". "New Day", www.cnn.com. October 5, 2016.

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

  Tim Kaine

  Worry, Bottom

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. And he's said Saudi Arabia should get them, Japan should get them, Korea should get them. And when he was confronted with this, and told, wait a minute, terrorists could get those, proliferation could lead to nuclear war, here's what Donald Trump said, and I quote: "Go ahead, folks, enjoy yourselves."

  Tim Kaine

  War, Believe, Waiting

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about. And I just - again, I cannot believe that Governor Pence will defend the insult-driven campaign that Donald Trump has run.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Believe, People

  "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

• In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Today, World

  "Mike Pence Says Trump Never Said That. Well, He Did" by Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

• Donald Trump always puts himself first. He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off the backs of the little guy." And as a candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals, and he has pursued the discredited and really outrageous lie that President Obama wasn't born in the United States. 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.

  Tim Kaine

  Lying, Thinking, Guy

  VP debate at Longwood University, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

• Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can. But why don't you trust women? Why doesn't Donald Trump trust women to make this choice for themselves? That's what we ought to be doing in public life. Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitement, convincing other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.

  Tim Kaine

  Motivation, People, Choices

  "Expanding the Debate: Green Ajamu Baraka “Debates” Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 1". www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

• We support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscience, their own supportive partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy. That's something we trust American women to do that. And we don't think that women should be punished, as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

  Tim Kaine

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Support

  "Tim Kaine in 2016 Vice-Presidential Debate". www.ontheissues.org. October 4, 2016.

• I think you should live your moral values. But the last thing, the very last thing that government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices. And that is the fundamental difference between a Clinton-Kaine ticket and a Trump- Pence ticket that wants to punish women who make that choice.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Choices, Moral

  "Mike Pence Says Trump Never Said That. Well, He Did". www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

• 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.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Religious, Eye

  "Expanding the Debate: Green Ajamu Baraka “Debates” Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 1". www.democracynow.org. October 05, 2016.

• 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. Hillary Clinton knows exactly who this guy is. John McCain said, I look in his eyes and I see KGB. And Hillary kind of has that same feeling.

  Tim Kaine

  Eye, Thinking, Guy

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

• It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with Russia to get them engaged in a community of nations to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons without firing a shot. She's not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy. But she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world, and we ought to have a commander-in-chief who is prepared and done it, rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader.

  Tim Kaine

  Guy, Leader, Community

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

• In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. 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 to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?

  Tim Kaine

  President, Wonder, Praise

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

• 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 made the odd claim, he said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama. Vladimir Putin has run his economy into the ground. He persecutes LGBT folks and journalists. If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership, then you got to go back to a fifth-grade civics class.

  Tim Kaine

  Running, Team, Leader

  "Expanding the Debate: Green Ajamu Baraka “Debates” Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 1", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

• So get this. On 9/11, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's hometown was attacked by the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city and protect first responders, but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.

  Tim Kaine

  Military, Fighting, Men

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

• Hillary and I will do immigration enforcement and we'll vet refugees based on whether they're dangerous or not. We won't do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you practice.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Immigration, Dangerous

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

• Trump loves dictators. He's got kind of a personal Mount Rushmore, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein. And last and most dangerously, Donald Trump believes - Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons.

  Tim Kaine

  Believe, World, Kind

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.

  Tim Kaine

  Believe, Hard Work, Goal

  "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2". www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

• 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.

  Tim Kaine

  People, Parent, Citizenship

  "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

• Did Donald Trump apologize for taking after somebody in a Twitter war and making fun of her weight? Did he apologize for saying African-Americans are living in Hell? Did he apologize for saying President Obama was not even a citizen of the United States? You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologizing.

  Tim Kaine

  Fun, War, Responsibility

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

  Tim Kaine

  People, Community, Understanding

  VP debate at Longwood University, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

• Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing?

  Tim Kaine

  Passion, People, Office

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

• Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.

  Tim Kaine

  Weed, Dad, Smoking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com