Joe Biden Quotes
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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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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 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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I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
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I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
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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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America doesn't have health insurance.
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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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These were al-Qaeda fighters, the first I'd ever seen up close, and they looked like badasses. As I passed on the outskirts of the grid, many of the prisoners stared directly at me. None of them cowered. I've been in a lot of prisons, but these guys showed a ferocity and a hatred unlike any I'd ever seen.
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Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.
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I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
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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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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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If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
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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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My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'
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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
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I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
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It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
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Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
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I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
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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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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.