Joe Biden Quotes
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Life is a matter of really tough choices.
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There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing.
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I'm not exploring. I’m in. And this is the beginning of a marathon
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Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
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No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
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There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
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I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.
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Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.
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I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
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America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
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The American people have not become heartless.
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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
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A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
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Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.
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I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
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One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.