Top 100 Joe Biden Quotes
#1. 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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#2. When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
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#3. There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.
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#5. We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside,
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#6. It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
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#7. What I was saying is that Israel cannot count on the United States.
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#8. 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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#9. I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.
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#10. 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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#11. Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.
Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008
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#12. Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.
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#13. I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.
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#14. Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.
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#15. There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.
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#16. The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.
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#17. We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
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#18. Life is a matter of really tough choices.
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#19. There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.
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#20. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
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#21. You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'
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#22. Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
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#23. Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
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#24. The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.
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#25. I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.
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#26. Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
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#27. In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
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#28. But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common ...
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#29. Israel has no better friend than Joe Biden
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#30. No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.
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#31. The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
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#32. I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home.
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#33. Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.
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#34. It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region.
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#35. Al Gore invented the Internet.
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#36. I was first in my family to go to college.
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#37. 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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#38. Gonna Be One Of The Great Achievements Of This Administration
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#39. People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.
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#40. Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.
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#41. Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
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#42. We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
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#43. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.
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#44. In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
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#45. Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. I've been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.
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#49. Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
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#50. A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
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#51. Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
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#52. Nothing we're going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting ...
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#53. And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.
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#54. No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
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#55. We're approaching being able to do a billion billion calculations per second, and that's the - that's the objective of our national labs. We're still not there. But with hundreds of millions of calculations per second.
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#56. Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.
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#57. If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
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#58. One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.
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#59. I'd rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.
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#60. If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.
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#61. What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.
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#62. US worse off than before Saddam because US lost credibility.
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#63. When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."
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#64. I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues ...
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#65. People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts,
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#66. ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
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#67. A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.
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#68. The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.
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#69. You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.
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#70. I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.
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#71. Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
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#72. You know, the eleven million people living in the shadows, I believe, they're already American citizens ... These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard alone eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view.
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#73. There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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#74. You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.
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#76. Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.
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#77. 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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#78. President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.
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#79. Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.
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#80. One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
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#81. On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
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#82. There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing.
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#83. Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.
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#84. For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
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#85. We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,
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#86. Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
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#87. Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
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#88. My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.
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#89. The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
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#90. 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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#91. I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.
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#92. The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are entitled to know as much as we can about the person that we're about to entrust with safeguarding our future and the future of our kids.
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#93. If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.
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#94. Make sure of two things: Be careful
microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, DC, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.
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#95. Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man ... It freed my soul.
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#96. I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.
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#97. I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black
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#98. One of my roles as vice president is to - is to be an interlocutor with the Senate and the House because everybody up there knows I respect them and I enjoy it. And I have a lot of good friends on both sides of the aisle up there.
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#99. For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.
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#100. I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.
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