Tim Kaine Quotes

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

If you want to age a lot of years, become president.

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

Ohio claims they are due a President as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they haven't had one since Lincoln.

It is one thing to be elected President and quite another for a man to become President. Yesterday, you decisively became President of this great nation.

If you are a United States senator and are not under indictment or in detoxification, you automatically consider yourself as a potential candidate for the Presidency.

I voted for [James] Buchanan because I didn't know him and voted against [John C.] Fremont because I did know him.

No way will I ever join that son-of-a-bitch. I looked it up. One out of every four presidents has died in office. I'm a gambling man, darling. This is the only chance I've got.

My old friend Judge Johnson used to say, "The Presidency is unlike the Kingdom of Heaven—those who seek shall never find.

If the Vice President were not to be President of the Senate, he would be without employment.

The way this works for us Presidents is … we always tell whoever wins that we were crossing our fingers.

Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.

I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.

Obama was never that bad or that great, and the same is probably going to go for Trump.

I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time.