Joe Biden Quotes
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For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
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The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
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ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.
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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 didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
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My memory is not as good as... Chief Justice Roberts.
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Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.
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Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
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There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
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I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
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The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.
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Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
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The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
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I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.
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When we kicked - along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know - if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.' Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.
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There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.
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ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
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I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
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When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
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I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.
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Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.