Tim Kaine Quotes

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

Politicians often refuse to talk about things on the grounds of national security. Most of the time it’s not national security; it’s national embarrassment.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release.

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

The most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way …that it must reveal a pretty steady stream of secrets.

We can be lied to only so many times. The best thing that he [President Nixon] can do for the country is to get the hell out of the White House and get out this afternoon.

[Richard Nixon was:] The greatest moral leader of the last third of this century.

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.