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" Gay individuals should be able to adopt. "
Tim Kaine
Able
Gay
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" I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget. "
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" I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators. "
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She
Going
" 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. "
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Women
Church
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" I have taken the position, which is quite common among Catholics - I have got a personal feeling about abortion, but the right rule for government is to let women make their own decisions. "
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Government
Women
Decisions
" As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters? "
Tim Kaine
Risk
Vote
Debate
" I am boring. "
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Boring
Am
I Am
" The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed. "
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Childhood
Succeed
Children
" No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy. "
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Policy
Right
Virginia
" I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from kindergarten, and she was watching TV because JFK - that Irish Catholic president that we loved - had been killed. "
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She
Time
Home
" I was a hard-times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But hey, tough times don't last and tough people do. And can I tell you that Virginians are tough people? We are tough people. "
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Deepest
People
You
" I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone. "
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Would
Tax
Some
" When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable. "
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Die
Care
Year
" I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose. "
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Gift
Sympathy
Win
" When I hear Donald Trump say the American military is a disaster, I want to go through the screen and shake the guy. We ought to have a commander in chief who talks about our troops with respect and gratitude. "
Tim Kaine
Gratitude
American
Want
" I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. "
Tim Kaine
Life
Sacred
Think
" 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. "
Tim Kaine
Death
Death Penalty
Life
" Whatever your religious tradition is, if it's important to you and you don't feel comfortable talking about it, you end up coming across as insincere. "
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Feel
You
Up
" I'm an optimist. "
Tim Kaine
Optimist
" We had a motto in my school: 'Men for Others.' And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice. "
Tim Kaine
School
Men
Motto
" I was a brand new senator in 2013. And the idiocy of Congress was to shut the government down for two weeks in October. And coming out of that, the pressure was put on the budget chair, Paul Ryan's shoulders and Patty Murray. Conservative Wisconsin Republican, progressive Washington Democrat, come up with a budget deal. "
Tim Kaine
Brand
Pressure
October
" We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves. "
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Ourselves
Must
Love
" It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes. "
Tim Kaine
Debate
Affect
Me
" You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that. "
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Way
You
Average
" As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can't sell a weapon, and here's how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, 'See, this isn't subject to the limitation.' "
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See
Gun
Know
" When Democrats kind of cavalierly attack the religious right or go after Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, our candidates have sent the signal to a lot of religious people, 'Well, I guess they are not interested in me.' And I think this includes a lot of people who would fit very naturally within the Democratic Party. "
Tim Kaine
Right
Kind
Think
" I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish. "
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Speech
Immigration
Floor
" I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no consequence. "
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Someone
Take
Information
" Anne and I have now been married almost 32 years, and I am the luckiest husband in the world. "
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Now
World
Husband
" My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. "
Tim Kaine
Volatility
Anxiety
Sense
" 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. "
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Security
Up
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