Top 268 Quotes & Sayings by Tim Kaine - Page 5

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

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

Hillary Clinton has that, a passion to empower families and kids, and a desire to measure health of society by how families and kids are doing. You can see this from her service as a lawyer, first lady of Arkansas, and United States senator, and secretary of state.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am a lover, not a fighter.

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

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.

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

If you think, what was the last really big, big accomplishment for the nation that came purely out of the legislature? It might be the Americans with Disabilities Act. I mean that really was a legislative creation.

Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.

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.