Joe Biden Quotes
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Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
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We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.
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In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
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Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
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My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
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People ask if I can compete with the money of Hillary and Barack. I hope at the end of the day, they can compete with my ideas and my experience.
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A convicted felon who had strong family ties, a stake in the community, and an education might get probation, while a man who had few family ties, little stake in the community, and little education might draw a ten-year sentence for the same crime.
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
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No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
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I was not an activist.
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When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
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When seagull droppings landed on my head at a campaign event at Bowers Beach two days before Election Day, I chose to read it as a sign of a coming success.
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I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.
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It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.
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No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.
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Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.
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The one thing I want my kids to remember about me is that I was an athlete. The hell with the rest of this stuff.
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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.
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I learned later that the surgeon who put Dole back together after he was so badly injured in World War II was an Armenian whose family had deep memories of the genocidal campaign the Turks had waged against them.
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Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
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My memory is not as good as... Chief Justice Roberts.
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I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
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If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.