Joe Biden Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
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Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
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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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I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
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Ties between our two countries are literally, literally unbreakable.
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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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The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.
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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 guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
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America's commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view - a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.
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As I pushed through to the podium, I could hear people murmuring under their breath: 'There he is... Goddam Biden.... Kill the sonofabitch.' And these were my voters- working-class Democrats.
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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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The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
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Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
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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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Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
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There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
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Income inequity has to be addressed.