Tim Kaine actually said...

"I intend to continue to highlight the importance of democracy and human rights as senior State Department nominees come before our committee for consideration."

"Democracies are less likely to produce terrorists or weapons of mass destruction because they provide outlets for dissent and they allow for diversity of opinion."

"Any suggestions of moral equivalency, that we are somehow on part with dictatorial regimes that kill political opponents, that jail journalists for speaking the truth, and indiscriminately bomb hospit..."

"Now and then, you have to negotiate with evil regimes but you do not have to do so without bringing up human rights."