Joe Biden Quotes
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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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The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
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I made a mistake. I underestimated the influence of Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neocons; I vastly underestimated their disingenuousness and incompetence. So George W. Bush went to war again, and just the way the neocons wanted him to- without significant international backing.
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You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
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Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
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The carnage was over, but there was still a bitter taste in my mouth.
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You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
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It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
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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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Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
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I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that state is.
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It was that hard; I still feel that way. But I believe that President Bush failed to lead. History will judge him harshly not for the mistakes he made- we all make mistakes- but for the opportunities he squandered.
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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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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
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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.
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
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You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
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The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.