Joe Biden Quotes
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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 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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Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.
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ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.
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My memory is not as good as... Chief Justice Roberts.
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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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Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
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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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Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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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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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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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
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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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Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.