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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
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I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
Joe Biden
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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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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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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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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
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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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No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.
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Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.
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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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I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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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.
Joe Biden
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
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Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
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Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
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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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ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.
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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.
Joe Biden
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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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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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Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
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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.
Joe Biden