Tim Kaine actually said...

"The leadership of Xi Jinping has seen China not only become bolder and more effective in projecting malign influence and power worldwide, but the Government has become more ruthless in many ways."

"I am very worried. There has been questions about issues in the Western Hemisphere and I am worried that we just pay attention to the Western Hemisphere when there is a crisis."

"The secretary of state, by longstanding norm, not law, has been one of the least political of the Cabinet secretaries."

"They were prohibited from engaging in political activity in concert with a partisan candidate, political party, or partisan political group."