Tim Kaine Quotes

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

Accountability begins with transparency.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

We have to raise the bar on corporate governance. Shareholders want ethical behavior and honesty.

I have long observed one Rule .... It is simply this, to be concern'd in no Affairs that I should blush to have made publick, and to do nothing but what spies may see ...

Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.

As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest.

Being honest means being forthright about information, no matter how painful disclosing that information might be.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.

There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.