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Tim Kaine

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“Very little. You know, my parents were classic Kansas Republicans in the day when that meant Bob Dole, Nancy Casibom, very moderate Republicans. And we didn't really talk about politics at all. It was baseball, church, school, the chiefs, you know, what our neighbors doing. I remember virtually no discussions about politics, but the news was on at night, and it was the Vietnam War and it was the civil rights movement. So I remember sharply the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy when you're a kid. Those are so great.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is, although one of the things I would hope folks who call themselves pro-life or pro-choice could unify around is the number of abortions and the number of unplanned pregnancies in the nation is reducing. In fact, fairly significantly, that's been something during the Obama presidency that I think doesn't get enough attention. I think if you make healthcare access available to women, I think if women have easy access to contraception, what you see is that the statistics here and elsewhere suggest that unplanned pregnancies and abortions reduce. And I think that that's good. So there are some things where we can agree. I think we ought to be able to agree. But this issue as a moral issue, it's not going to go away. But I don't think it's the job of elected officials to mandate that women make choices. Women can make those for themselves.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Abortion is an important moral question, and I think churches should be active in kind of talking about what they think about it, but at the end of the day, I don't think we ought to use the criminal law to criminalize and prosecute and even jail women for making health care decisions. And that was what the rule was before Roe v. Wade was decided. So I think Roe vs. Wade says, keep this in the moral realm, but don't use the criminal law to punish women for their health care decisions. And I feel that that is the right thing for civil society, and I don't think bottom line, I don't think the church, any church can demand that civil society just enact its own laws for everybody.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wasn't surprised. Look, my church also doesn't mind vigorous debate. I mean, that's something that's the church I was raised in doesn't mind vigorous debate about things. And, you know, the way I look at my own church experience and then my responsibilities as a public official is I'm going to live in accord with the doctrines of my church. And the church has the right to demand that those of us who call ourselves Catholics or whatever the religion live in accord with their teachings. But I feel very strongly that the First Amendment to the Constitution that guarantees everybody the right to worship as they please or not and that says you can't establish one religion over others, it means that in the public sphere we're not supposed to just legislate Catholic Church doctrine until everybody you got to follow it. So I'll live in accord with my faith, but I don't think my job as an elected official is to dictate to others how they should solve important moral questions.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Jesuits at the time and still, and I just find this all over the world, and as I talk to people who've had Jesuit education, they confirm this. They have a tradition that merges intellectual rigor and social justice. And they just kind of put both of those together in a magical way. This was certainly the case in the 1970s when I went to Rockhurst High School. And I love the intellectual challenge, but I also really liked the spiritual dimension that was trying to express itself in practical works of mercy, trying to help other people out.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, my mom and dad are both very devout Catholics and we had a neighborhood parish that we were part of. In fact, really growing up, it was sort of like I hardly knew that there were non-Catholics in the world. We really were very much in the Catholic milieu. I went to elementary schools, public elementary schools, but then when I was getting ready to go to high school, my parents over my objection decided that I should go to an all-boys Jesuit high school, Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, which is connected with Rockhurst College. And while I resisted the notion of especially single-sex education, and I liked the public schools I was in, I hadn't been at that school for a week when I realized, wow, this is really fantastic.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, very much. And so she ended up after we were done going back to work a little bit and has always been very involved in charity and philanthropic work. But my parents are great Irish Catholic.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my dad Al, who's alive 82, my mom and dad both healthy, 82 years old. He had a union-organized ironworking and welding shop in the stockyards of Kansas City that was a classic American small business. There were five employees in a tough year and maybe nine or ten in a good year, and my mother and my two brothers and me. So we all grew up working in Dad Shop, my dad great work ethic, never cut corners, really preached excellence and doing a good job by customers. And then my mom was a home ec teacher, but by the time the three boys came in quick succession.”
2016-10-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 90 - Tim Kaine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source