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One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
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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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The American people have not become heartless.
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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
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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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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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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
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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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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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'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.
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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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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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Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
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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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There is a great deal of pressure, in the one particular area at least, to prostitute our ideas, if not our integrity.
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I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
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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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I knew I had to be sure-footed about the issues I was talking about. When you're twenty-nine years old, who the hell is going to think you're credible? It wasn't enough to have ideas; I had to know my facts. I had to demonstrate command from the minute I started running. I understood that was the test I had to pass.
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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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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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If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
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Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
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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.
Joe Biden