110+ Tim Kaine Quotes On Education, Government And Constitution

Tim Kaine is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from Virginia. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. Prior to that, he served as the 70th Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010 and as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tim Kaine on education, government, leadership.

Top 10 Tim Kaine Quotes

1. Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.
2. Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.
3. No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.
4. We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.
5. Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.
6. 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 foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.
7. The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.
8. The great presidents are people who watch out for others.
9. The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.
10. I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

Tim Kaine Short Quotes

• I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.
• When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.
• I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
• You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
• No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.
• Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
• My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
• I am a lover, not a fighter.
• Anybody who hacks into get documents is completely capable of manipulating them.
• I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just "no" on everything.

Tim Kaine Quotes About Issues

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

Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each 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

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here. — Tim Kaine

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

The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly, people see these issues as probably the clearest window into somebody's temperament, their judgment, whether they're steady or volatile. — Tim Kaine

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

Tim Kaine Quotes About Immigration

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

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

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. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

Americans are a nation of immigrants. — Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine Quotes About Rights

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. — Tim Kaine

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done. — Tim Kaine

I am extremely energized to be in the Senate, because the Senate is the only emergency brake on the Trump train right now. And we have to use that emergency brake in a smart way to keep him from hurting our country, our reputation, our values, and our citizens. — Tim Kaine

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

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. — Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine Famous Quotes And Sayings

Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. He said, I have a secret plan, and then he said, um, I know more than all the generals about ISIS. And then he said, I'm going to call the generals to help me figure out a plan. And finally he said, I'm going to fire all the generals. He doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas. — Tim Kaine

If you want to know about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that has animated them throughout their life, whether they were in office or out, whether they were winning elections or losing them. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000. — Tim Kaine

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist. — Tim Kaine

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

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

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. — Tim Kaine

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it. — Tim Kaine

I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life, but I don't believe in America, a first amendment nation, where we don't raise any religion over the other, and we allow people to worship they please, that the doctrines of any religion should be mandated for everyone. — Tim Kaine

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

Gay individuals should be able to adopt. — Tim Kaine

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

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

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

Nations that pay for outcomes and health actually spend a lower percentage of GDP, and they have better outcomes. And so the Affordable Care Act is starting to make that migration, but we've got to keep down that path, and we'll improve outcomes and reduce cost. — Tim Kaine

The thing I would worry a little bit about is Donald Trump owes about $650 million to banks, including the Bank of China. I'm not sure he could stand up so tough to the people who have loaned him money. — Tim Kaine

I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it. — Tim Kaine

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

It's immoral to ask people to risk their life. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

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 national security adviser, Mike Flynn, who is a pro-Russia conspiracy theorist, and he's just put Steve Bannon, a guy with connections to white supremacy and antisemitism, onto the National Security Council. — Tim Kaine

You spend your time blaming the other for what's not getting done and you actually do a couple things, and then you switch to, "Hey, let's instead compete about who gets the credit for what we just did." And that's a lot more fun. — Tim Kaine

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

Hillary Clinton's position on policy on markets and trade is very plain, which is we'll do trade deals but only if they meet three criteria, increase American jobs and wages and are they good for national security. If they are and if we can enforce them, then trade deals are okay. If not, we can't embrace them. — Tim Kaine

I'm not a Hillary Clinton defender. I'm a Hillary Clinton promoter. — Tim Kaine

Peace should be our future. — Tim Kaine

Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber stamp. But what these guys are doing is, "Wait a minute, we don't have to vote yes or no, and maybe we can trick our voters into not holding us accountable for not voting yes or no." — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it's smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not to pay for veterans, it's smart not to pay for teachers and I guess all of us who do pay for those things I guess we're stupid. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

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. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter. — Tim Kaine

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

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

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. — Tim Kaine

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

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. — Tim Kaine

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

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. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

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

Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is. — Tim Kaine

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

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

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

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. — Tim Kaine

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

We should let women make their own decisions. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

Despair is a natural emotion. — Tim Kaine

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

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

If faith is your motivation, share that. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

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

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

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 said wages are too high. And both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage. — Tim Kaine

You build the bonds through the community and 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

In life, success begets success. — Tim Kaine

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. — Tim Kaine

Hillary Clinton has a long track record of service in public life. And you can look at that. I tell the story about her being first lady of the United States, when the effort to get Hillary Clinton done failed, and that was a tough, tough, bitter loss, but then it tested her as a leader. And she worked together with Democrats and Republicans to get health insurance for eight million low-income American children in the CHIP program. — Tim Kaine

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

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. — Tim Kaine

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

There are a series of connections between Donald Trump and his closest advisers and Russia that at least raise significant questions. Some of those questions could be answered if Donald Trump was willing to release his tax returns, but he's unwilling to do that. — Tim Kaine

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

Life Lessons by Tim Kaine

1. Tim Kaine's work as an American politician demonstrates the importance of collaboration and compromise in order to achieve meaningful progress.
2. He has also shown the value of staying true to one's values and beliefs, even when it means taking unpopular stances.
3. Finally, his work has highlighted the importance of working with diverse groups of people to build a stronger and more unified society.