Joe Biden Quotes
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My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'
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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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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
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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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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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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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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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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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I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
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The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
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I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
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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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People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
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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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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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Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.
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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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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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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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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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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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America doesn't have health insurance.
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But I respectfully suggest, Major, that the responsibility is slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether to take the nation to war alone, or to take the nation to war part way, or to take the Nation to work half-way. That is a real tough decision.
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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.