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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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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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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America doesn't have health insurance.
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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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If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
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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 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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It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
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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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Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
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Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.
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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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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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I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
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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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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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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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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
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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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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.