Tim Kaine

There was no guarantee that waiting would get us a better result, but there was a guarantee that waiting would impose suffering on more everyday people.

He knows he was getting blamed.

I came to the conclusion that they were not going to cave on that red line.

This deal guarantees a vote to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, which Republicans weren't willing to do.

Congress should not cede its power to any president

If the president engages, we will find a deal I think within hours.

This is a classic thing where there's no one, you know, part of government that's got the whole answer to this.

Let's spread the word, because again, getting this done in the statute is one thing.

The issue that I’ve always been focused on ... is a deal, a deal?

And it's a pretext that's just being used to pour more and more tariffs onto Canada.

I don't think you can say that fentanyl is not an emergency vis-a-vis Mexico or China, but it is ridiculous to say that fentanyl is an emergency with respect to Canada.

But they are also really about how much will we let a president get away with? Do my colleagues have a gag reflex or not?

So the votes are about tariffs, and they're about the economic destruction of tariffs, but they are also really about, how much will we let a president get away with?

Tariffs are a tax on American consumers. Tariffs are a tax on American businesses. And they are a tax that is imposed by a single person: Donald J. Trump.

You know what a metaphor is. A metaphor is something that not only stands for itself but it stands for something else. As you look at that picture of the White House being demolished today, at the very time as you were standing on this…

We really need more of a commitment than that.

I want an assurance that if we make an agreement, it will be honored.

It would be a big mistake for the Prime Minister Netanyahu to look at all of these nations that have been allies, saying you need to change course, and for him to just pull his head in the shell and turn inward and continue to isolate…

I was very heartened that the President said that, and you're right. I support what the United States voted for in the UN in 1947 a state of Israel and a state of Palestine.

We are really worried about it, Margaret.

The only thing about the president's threat to fire more people is, he's already doing it.

Putting a gag order on a CDC director and directing her not to speak to those who have confirmed her and to whom she is responsible for oversight is a very serious matter.

Again, no concern about your qualifications. I had concern about your backbone, and I was wrong, and I apologize to you for being wrong.

You got over the qualifications bar easily, but my worries about the direction of HHS made me question you very significantly on your backbone, a trait that is not in long supply in this town. And then when I voted against your…

It’s not theoretical,” he said.