Joe Biden Quotes
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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 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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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.
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I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
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There is never a time when a president can act to stop a tragedy from occurring without being held politically accountable one way or the other. If he does it and fails, he's wrong. If he does it and succeeds, he was never right because it didn't happen. If we go in and stop an act of genocide, we can't prove what we stopped.
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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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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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Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
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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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The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
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In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.
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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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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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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
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No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
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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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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.