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Timothy Micheal Kaine is an American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Virginia since 2013.
A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 and 70th governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010.
Kaine was announced Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2016 election by former United States Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Kaine was the first Virginian since Woodrow Wilson to be on a major-party ticket. Kaine was also nominated for vice president as senator United States.
He was born on February 26th, 1958 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He grew up in Overland Park, Kansas.
He went to Rockhurst High School where he joined the debate team and was elected student body president. He went to the University of Missouri and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.
Senator Tim Kaine graduated Omicron Delta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of Missouri. He decided to enter Harvard Law School in 1979.
He worked in Honduras for nine months, interrupting his study at Harvard. He returned from Honduras to complete his degree. He graduated with a J.D degree in 1983.
After that, he passed the Virginia bar in 1984.
The young Kaine became a law clerk for Judge R. Lanier Anderson III after graduating from Harvard. He joined the Richmond law firm of Little, Parsley, and Cluverius, P.C. He became director of the law firm Mezzullo & McCandlish, P.C in 1987.
Senator Tim Kaine practiced law at Richmond for 17 years and specialized in fair housing law. He also represented clients who were discriminated against on the basis of disability and race. Kane also did regular pro bono work.
He started teaching legal ethics in 1988 at the University of Richmond School of Law. He taught there for six years and his students included Virginia attorney general Mark Herring.
Kaine became interested in politics due to the influence of his wife’s family and also his experience at Richmond city council meetings.
He became the 2nd district member of the city council by defeating incumbent Benjamin P.A. Warthen. He retained his position till September 10th, 2001.
Kaine ran for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2001 after senator Emily Couric dropped out due to cancer. He ran against state delegate Alan Diamonstein. Kaine won the general elections and was sworn in on January 12th, 2002 by his wife.
In 2005, Kaine ran for governor of Virginia against Republican candidate Jerry W. Kilgore, a former attorney general.
Sen. Kaine ran for governor of Virginia in 2005 and won by large margins in Richmond and northern Virginia’s outer suburbs. He was sworn in as governor at the colonial Capitol at Williamsburg in 2006.
He announced in 2011 that he would run for Jim Webb’s seat in the Senate. He defeated former governor and senator George Allen in the general election.
Kaine endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 for president and campaigned for her actions in seven states.
Hillary Clinton in turn announced that Kaine would be her running mate in the elections. They lost the Electoral votes and also the elections.
Senator Tim Kaine announced that he would run for the Senate reelection in 2018. He defeated Corey Stewart by more than 15 points in the elections.
Sen. Kaine received awards and honors for his accomplishments, including the Humanitarian Award, Virginia Region of the National Conference for Community and Justice.
The Award for Public Service and the Center for the National Interest Distinguished Service Award.
By the end of his service in the office, Virginia was ranked as the best state to raise a child and also the best state for business.
You can find out more about the senator here.
Here’s our collection of the Tim Kaine Famous Quotes:
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Tim Kaine Quotes on Politics/Power
I’ve been a city councilman and mayor. I’ve been a lieutenant governor and governor and now, in the Senate, serve on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee. So I’m a utility player. I just want to do everything I can to make sure A) we win and that B) the presidency of Hillary Clinton is fantastic.
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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?
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Let me let you in on a secret. 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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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.
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I want to make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States because we need Secretary Clinton’s focus on making sure that we build an America where our values of inclusion and opportunity for everyone are the values that bring us together.
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Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
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My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
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If you want a senator who’ll partner with the president to do what’s best for the nation, I’m your guy.
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The key is grow your talent, attract talent, and then you’ll attract the institutions that want to be around talent – and that, to me, is what we need to do at the national level.
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I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.
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As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.
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When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career.
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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.
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I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.
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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.
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Tim Kaine Quotes on Tax/Economy
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.
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The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.
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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?
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I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.
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Tim Kaine Quotes on Health/Education
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.
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Most policy debate these days seems to be about charter schools or high-stakes testing. But I’m convinced that the most important reform has been under our noses since 1975, when legislation was passed to guarantee children with diagnosed disabilities receive individualized learning plans tailored to meet their specific needs.
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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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The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.
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Tim Kaine Quotes on Equality/Society
You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
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When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don’t think people are that divided.
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If faith is your motivation, share that.
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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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You don’t ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It’s immoral.
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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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No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple – that’s the right policy.
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Tim Kaine Quotes on Security
A drone isn’t any different than a bomb; it’s not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not. It’s just the weapons platform.
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I work on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees to keep us safe at home and strong in the world.
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Tim Kaine Quotes on Rights/Justice/Constitution
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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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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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.
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Other Tim Kaine Quotes
I think life is sacred, whether it’s abortion or the death penalty.
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I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
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I’m an optimist.
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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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I’m not going to be anybody’s punching bag.
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We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.
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