Tim Kaine actually said...

"So there is a political cause for economic suffering and the leaders are not taking the steps needed and not tackling the fundamental changes necessary to change the economic situation."

"How can the United States not firmly be on the side of people who are being violated in this systemic way?"

"I view much of the unrest as being driven by kind of an autocratic, oil-dominated economy where corrupt people at the top skim off a lot."

"The changes generally do not get made if the autocrats feel like they can use their natural resource revenues to just kind of keep things limping along."