Tim Kaine actually said...

"I would welcome making the Tax Code fairer and simpler and having a more unified base, but certainly not if the revenues is meant to go to pay for more spending."

"A very specific claim in an academic paper cited frequently by many of my Republican colleagues on this committee to make the case for short-term austerity was found to be flawed."

"They are not using the tax increases to reduce the deficit."

"It seems to me that if history teaches anything, it is that those who carry the view that their end justifies extreme means are usually on the wrong side of history."