Joe Biden Quotes
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Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.
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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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Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
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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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I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
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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 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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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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ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.
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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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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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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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Given Iraq's strategic location, its large oil reserves, and the suffering of the Iraqi people, we cannot afford to replace a despot with chaos. It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in its wake.
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Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
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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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Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.
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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.
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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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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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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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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.