Joe Biden Quotes
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Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
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I've been really, really fortunate.
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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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Ties between our two countries are literally, literally unbreakable.
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It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
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Income inequity has to be addressed.
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I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
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You've all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character - one of the finest presidents we have ever had.
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Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
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I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'
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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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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.
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The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
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There's no political point worth my son's life.
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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
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The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
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I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
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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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Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.
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The first few days I felt trapped in a constant twilight of vertigo, like in the dream where you're suddenly falling... only I was constantly falling. In moments of fitful sleep I was aware of the dim possibility that I would wake up, truly wake up, and this would not have happened.
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Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.
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The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.