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."

"It is incumbent upon us to explore and explain why the support of emerging democracies should be a core U.S. national interest precisely because it is a national security imperative."

"Is not this something that in the end should be looked at as a strength and not a weakness?"

"We should actually ask the people involved and what it is that they want, their own desires, their own aspirations."