Tim Kaine Quotes (17 Quotes)


    The federal government should serve the American people. But that mission is frustrated by this administration's poor choices and bad management. Families in the Gulf Coast see that as they wait to rebuild their lives.

    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.

    What would you subtract Jerry Kilgore has not yet identified one dime of any cut or subtraction he would make. He's a classic guy who wants to have it both ways he wants to say it was wrong but enjoys the spending that has resulted.

    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.

    I think he realizes that if he has to stand up and (answer) that, folks aren't going to like the answers he gives.


    I want someone with a national reputation. I want somebody who is a good manager of people and who is a change agent. I think the one-term governor hurts transportation more than anything else because if you change out secretaries of transportation and VDOT commissioners on a four-year cycle you just don't get the continuity you need on the transportation side. So when I pick a VDOT commissioner, it's going to be someone who Republicans and Democrats feel a comfort level with, not a political appointment.

    We can't just tax and pave our way out of traffic. I'll give your community more power to stop out-of-control development that increases traffic.

    Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

    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.

    We now know that the American people were given inaccurate information about the reasons for invading Iraq. We now know that our troops in Iraq were not given the best body armor or the best intelligence.

    You want to have a shooting contest You want to go hiking Give me a pocketknife and a set of matches and I'll go up against anybody,

    I saw that and it just made my heart sink. That act reflected very poorly on him and on the institution.

    I am focusing on things where we can build on this management tradition that we have, advance smart priorities and do so in ways that save us money on the back end.

    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.

    I'm happy to elevate Dr. Morris for a number of reasons but I hope I elevate the profile of the independent and private colleges as part of the educational mix in higher education.

    Look back to 2001, ... President Bush was at his all-time high, it was just after Sept. 11, and Virginia elected a Democratic governor.

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


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