Tim Kaine said "The tools that we most often talk about on this committee or in the Foreign Relations Committee, or three of the four--you used the DIME acronym--diplomacy, information, military, economic." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 2, 2015

The tools that we most often talk about on this committee or in the Foreign Relations Committee, or three of the four--you used the DIME acronym--diplomacy, information, military, economic.

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Tim Kaine

Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine emphasizes the importance of various tools in foreign relations.

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