Joe Biden Quotes
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I'm running for president because I think that, with a lot of help, I can stem the tide of this slide and restore America’s leadership in the world and change our priorities. I will argue that my experience and my track record - both on the foreign and domestic side - put me in a position to be able to do that.
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The American people have not become heartless.
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You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.
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No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
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People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
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We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
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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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Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.
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I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
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It is an exciting and dangerous time, for this generation of Americans has the opportunity so rarely granted to others by fate and history. We literally have the chance to shape the future - to put our own stamp on the face and character of America, to bend history just a little bit.
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Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
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I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
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We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
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We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
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America doesn't have health insurance.
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It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.
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Most of all I was numb, but there were moments when the pain cut through like a shard of broken glass. I began to understand how despair led people to just cash it in; how suicide wasn't just an option but a rational option.
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I would respectfully suggest to you that the Democrats out there understand I am the only person with a plan that can get out of Iraq without our interests in the region not falling apart.
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No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.
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Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
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In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
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If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
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Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.