Tim Kaine quotes:

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.

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

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 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.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

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

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

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.

Americans are a nation of immigrants.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

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.

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.

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?

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.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

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

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.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

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

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

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

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

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

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 he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings. This would be solved if Donald Trump would release his tax returns as he's told the American public that he would do.

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

Anybody who hacks into get documents is completely capable of manipulating them.

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

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

Despair is a natural emotion.

Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.

Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.

Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected to Putin.

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.

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

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.

For anybody whose family, you know, probably came from somewhere else a few generations to say, OK, but now we're going to put up the drawbridge and not let anybody else in, I don't think that's in accord with the values of America.

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

Gay individuals should be able to adopt.

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. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.

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

Hillary Clinton 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 come from.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

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.

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

I am a lover, not a fighter.

I am not taking anything for granted.

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

I am so proud to be running with another strong history-making woman, Hillary Clinton, to be president of the United States. I'm proud because her vision of stronger together, building an economy that works for all, not just those at the top, being safe in the world, not only with a strong military, but also strong alliances to battle terrorism and climate change, and also to build a community of respect, just like Barbara Johns tried to do 65 years ago. That's why I'm so proud to be her running mate.

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

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

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

I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

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

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.

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.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our own views for everybody else in society regardless of their views.

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

I think there are a lot of opportunities in the Americas that matter deeply to 45 million Latinos in this country, and I would hope to be able to work to maybe elevate the profile of the Americas in our discussion about American global leadership.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.

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.

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

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.

I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In life, success begets success.

In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.

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.

It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.

It's immoral to ask people to risk their life.

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

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.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

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.

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.

Mike Pence did ask this question about debt and the debt explosion on the [Donald] Trump plan is much, much bigger than anything on the [Hillary] Clinton side.

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.

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

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.

No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart is on his sleeve, and that's one of the things people love about him.

Peace should be our future.

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

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

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.

Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

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."

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

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