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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware as a U.S. Senator from 1973 to 2009.

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Such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 13 hours ago Politics

If these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trump's willingness to abuse President Trump power and abase our country. This behavior is particularly abhorrent because it exploits the foreign policy of our country and undermines our national security for political purposes. It means that President Trump used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation — a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia — pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor, such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta. At minimum, Donald Trump should immediately release the transcript of the call in question, so that the American people can judge for themselves, and direct the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to stop stonewalling and release the whistleblower notification to the Congress.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 15 hours ago Politics

I looked at them and said : I'm leaving in six hours, if the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 20 hours ago Top News

Not one single one, and so I have no comment except The President should start to be( the) The President.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 20 hours ago Top News

Relentless in her pursuit of the truth and steadfast in her commitment to breaking down barriers for women in journalism — our country is better because of it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 days ago Top News

Folks, I voted for a fence, i voted, and unlike most Democrats -- some of you wont like this, but I voted for 700 miles.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 days ago Opinion

I learned a lot. And I learned that it makes a difference.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 days ago Politics

This was the diving board area, and I was one of the guards, and they werent allowed to -- it was a 3-meter board. And if you fell off sideways, you landed on the damn, er, darn cement over there.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 days ago Politics

I said, Youre kidding me.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 days ago Politics

Joe Biden later dismissed concerns about Joe Biden apparent fabrications as irrelevant. That has nothing to do with judgment of whether or not you send troops to war, the judgment of whether you bring someone home, the judgment of whether you decide on a health care policy.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 days ago Politics

I mean there's no reason for me not to release my medical records.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 days ago Politics

The Democratic Party has an obligation bigger than to The Democratic Party now. This is about more than Democrats, the party has to be bigger than its own interests. We have to unite the country because we're in a position if we don't, no one else is going to fill the world vacuum. If we do, we can make changes that are going to be breathtaking.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 days ago Politics

I mean look, look -- last night was the closest we came to a debate, OK ? we actually had an open debate on health care, and I felt very good about the debate on health care.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 days ago Politics

It seems like most people have stopped criticizing me on the debate stage, given what happens to them.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 days ago Politics

What I saw last night was fewer personal attacks.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 days ago Politics

Nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime, when we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 7 days ago Opinion

The senator says she's for Bernie, well, I'm for Barack.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 8 days ago Politics

Thus far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left, has not said how she's going to pay for it.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 8 days ago Top News

China - the problem isn't the trade deficit, the problem is they're stealing our intellectual property. The problem is they're violating the WTO. They're dumping steel on us, and that's why you need to organize the world to take on China, to stop the corrupt practices that are under way.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 8 days ago Top News

We don't need those troops there, i would bring them home.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 8 days ago Top News

I know that the senator says she's for Bernie. Well I'm for Barack. I think Obamacare worked, this is about candor, honesty, big ideas.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 8 days ago Top News

Right after I got elected, my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident, and my two sons were badly injured. And I just had been elected, not sworn in. And I lost my faith for a while. I came back, and then later, when my son Beau came home from Iraq and -- with a terminal disease, and a year later, year-and-a-half later, losing him was like losing part of my soul. But the fact is that I learned that the way you deal with it -- is you deal with it by finding purpose, purpose in what you do. And that's why I hope -- I hope he's proud of me today.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 days ago Top News

I know that the senator says Elizabeth Warren's for Bernie Sanders, I'm for Barack Obama, i think the Obamacare worked. I think the way we add to it, replace everything that's been cut, add a public option, guarantee that everyone will be able to have affordable insurance number one.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 days ago Top News

Medicare goes away as you know it, all the Medicare you have is gone.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 12 days ago Politics

Obamacare is working, no one has to keep their private insurance, but if they like their insurance, they should be able to keep it... If they don't, they can buy into the Biden plan, which is Obamacare.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 12 days ago Politics

The idea that we don't have elimination of assault type weapons -- magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them -- it's absolutely mindless, it is no violation of the Second Amendment -- it's just a bow to the special interest of the gun manufacturers and The NRA. It's got to stop.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 18 days ago Politics

If you have a generous union-backed plan and you have given up union wages to get that plan, you can keep it.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 22 days ago Top News

The story was that he refused the medal because the fella he tried to save -- and risked his life saving -- died, that's the beginning, middle and end. The rest of you guys can take it and do what you want with it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 22 days ago Politics

He said,' Sir, I don't want the damn thing !'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 22 days ago Politics

By the way, that doesn't mean it'll stay that way, you can go back and look : When Barack( Obama) clobbered me in the campaign, you know, I had more black support in South Carolina than anybody, including him. I got blown out in Iowa and all of a sudden everything changed. Same thing could happen.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 23 days ago Top News

Whomever I pick, preferably it will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender, but I'm not making that commitment until I know that the person I'm dealing with I can completely and thoroughly trust as authentic and on the same page [ as me ].

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 23 days ago Top News

I'm not using those examples anymore.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 23 days ago Top News

You worked like hell. You gave up wages for it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 23 days ago Top News

I have never, ever, ever in my entire life had a circumstance where I have felt uncomfortable in the black community.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 23 days ago Top News

We got to build on what we did because every American deserves affordable health care.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 24 days ago Politics

Follow me on the campaign trail.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

The president has decided to be president for his base. I will be a president for every American. People know who Donald Trump is; we need to let them know we are.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 26 days ago Politics

If you have a plan that is already working, you are in entitled to keep it. If you are not satisfied, you will have a public option.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 26 days ago Politics

What's not to love about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? I mean this is sort of a scenic, beautiful town.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 26 days ago Politics

Donald Trump inherited a growing economy from the Obama-Biden administration, just like he inherited everything in his life, and now he's squandering it, just like he squandered everything he inherited in his life.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

The route that the president has us going down is a big mistake, we should be focusing on how you re-empower the middle class, we should be rewarding work, not wealth.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Business

We have predators on our streets that society has, in fact, in part because of this neglect, created, again, it does not mean because we created them, that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect my family and yours from them. They are beyond the pale, many of those people -- beyond the pale.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Opinion

There is so much we can do -- practical, sensible steps that draw broad support among the American people.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Why are you so hooked on that ? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else, i'm not everybody else. I'm Joe Biden. I've always been who I am. I'm staying the way I am. He is encouraging white supremacists, you can determine what that means. It's like everybody wants everybody to call someone a liar. When you say --' I don't call people liars. I say they don't tell the truth.' You want to hear me say' liar,' so you can put it out and say Joe Biden called someone a liar. That's not who I am. You've got the wrong guy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

We're going to bring him home.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

I met with them and then they went off up on the Hill when I was vice president.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I've taken on the NRA nationally, and I've beaten them, red flag.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

Why are you so hooked on that ? You just want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else, i'm not everybody else -- I'm Joe Biden. I've always been who I am. I'm staying the way I am. He is encouraging white supremacists -- you can determine what that means.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I am a gaffe machine, but my God what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can't tell the truth.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

We have a president who has aligned himself with the darkest forces in the nation, we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced a political strategy of hate, racism, and division.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

How far is it from Trump's saying this 'is an invasion' to the shooter in El Paso declaring 'his attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas?' Not far at all.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

If the answer to the question, 'Do racism and white supremacy exist?' is yes, then the real question isn't who is or isn't a racist - but who is and isn't doing something about it.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

We're living through a rare moment in this nation's history. Where our President isn't up to the moment. Where our President lacks the moral authority to lead. Where our President has more in common with George Wallace than he does with George Washington, we are almost 330 million Americans who have to do what our President can't. Stand together. Stand against hate. Stand up for what -- at our best -- our nations' best, when we're the best.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I don't think it's that far at all, it's both clear language and in code. This president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Former Vice President Joe Biden low-energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for Former Vice President Joe Biden condemning white supremacists this week I don't believe fooled anyone at home or abroad.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I wish I could say that this all began with Donald Trump and will end with Donald Trump. But it didn't -- and I won't, american history is not a fairytale. The battle for the soul of this nation has been a constant push-and-pull for 243 years between the American ideal, that says we're all created equal, and the harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

In both clear language and in code, this President has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

His low-energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week I don't believe fooled anyone at home or abroad.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Mr President, it's long past time you called it out: It's hatred pure and simple fueled by rhetoric that's so divisive it's causing people to die.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

We've always brought the country together. ' We the people, we hold these truths to be self-evident.' ( Trump) flies in the face of all the basic things that we've never really met the standard( of, but) we've never abandoned it before, he looks like he's just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

This is a president who has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson. Nobody's said anything like the things he's saying.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

I hope in the next debate we can talk about how we can fix the things that Trump has broken, not how Barack Obama made all these mistakes, because he didn't, this, going back 10, 20 or 30 years, is just a game to make sure we hand the Republicans an election.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

That's not a debate. I understand why it has to be that way, but I'm looking forward to getting to a place where we can actually exchange ideas.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

This, going back 10, 20 or 30 years, is just a game to make sure we hand the Republicans an election.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

I must tell you, I was a little surprised how much the incoming was about Barack Obama, this is three years later.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

This is three years later.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

To compare him to Donald Trump, I think, is absolutely bizarre.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

You can't beat President Trump with double-talk on this plan, the plan no matter how you cut it costs $3 trillion. It will require middle-class taxes to go up, not down. Thirdly, it will eliminate employer-based insurance.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

When Senator Harris was the attorney general for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, i didn't see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

If you cross the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back. It's a crime.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

Let's get something straight, we love it, we're not leaving it, we're here to stay and we're certainly not leaving it here to you.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

It will require middle-class taxes to go up, not down.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I got a past I'm proud of. They got a past that's not quite so good.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I think we should have an honest debate, look, you can't go out and you can't run for president and beat President Donald Trump without leveling with the American people about what you're going to do and how you're going to pay for it. I'm anxious for that debate.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

If he wants to go back and talk about records, I'm happy to do that, but I'd rather talk about the future.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

They did a significant background check on me for months with 10 people. I doubt whether they would have picked me if these accusations about me being wrong on civil rights were correct.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

Every major initiative needs to be reformed.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

We have now a systemic issue and too many African Americans in jail right now, so I think we should shift the whole focus from what we were doing in terms of incarceration to rehabilitation.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

If they want to argue about the past, I can do that, i got a past I'm proud of. They got a past that's not quite so good.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

His police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly African American men.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

Come on. I mean, what is this ? Is this a fantasy world here ?

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

This is the same person who asked me to come to California and nominate her in her convention.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

If Barack Obama wants to go back and talk about records, I am happy to do that -- but I'd rather talk about the future.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

Our children are listening to this. What the president says matters. It matters, because the president is the face of the nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

What I'm saying is, you still should not be able to just cross the border, you've got to get in line.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago US News

These members of Congress — children of immigrants, just like so many of us — are an example of exactly what makes America great.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

I would say,' Come on Donald Trump, come on man. How many push-ups do you want to do here, pal ?' Jokingly, you know, come on, run with me man.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The idea that I'd be intimidated by Donald Trump, joe Biden's Joe Biden that I knew my whole life. Joe Biden's Joe Biden that I've always stood up to. Joe Biden's the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I'd smack Joe Biden in the mouth.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

It's very different than turning to someone on a stage who says something that's so off the wall to me because I don't want to attack anyone on stage, that's not what I intend to do, but I realize that some have concluded that because I didn't respond very tough back to( Kamala Harris) that how can I take on Donald Trump ? I've never had any trouble taking anyone on from Donald Trump to( Russian President Vladimir) Putin to( Chinese President) Xi Jinping Donald Trump.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

If we were in high school, I'd take Joe Biden behind the gym and beat the hell out of Joe Biden.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

We should not be starting from scratch. We should be building from what we have. There's no time to wait.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago US News

I give people the option.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

Heres the deal guys, one of the things thats happening is, all of a sudden, the American public has figured out what ObamaCares about. They understand it. ... Its the place from which to build.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

I think one of the most significant things weve done in our administration is pass the Affordable Care Act, i dont know why wed get rid of what in fact was working and move to something totally new. And so, there are differences.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

Bernies been very honest about it, he said youre going to have to raise taxes on the middle class. He said its going to end all private insurance. I mean, hes been straightforward about it. And hes making his case.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

Now, things are changing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The idea that somehow we have decided that our system doesn't work anymore, which I'm hearing some of them saying -- that we're going to, you know, pack the courts ; we're going to fundamentally change the way, I'm going to do what Trump did ; if we take control, I'm going to go in there and I'm just going to, by executive order -- what are we talking about ?

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

We've seen the struggle, and we know that most American families are dealing with some sort of struggle like we are, and I think they can relate to us, you know, as parents who are hopeful and are supportive of our son, and we will continue to be supportive. And I think that makes us more empathetic about helping other Americans.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

America in 2019 is a very different place than the America of the 1970s, and that's a good thing. I've witnessed an incredible amount of change in this nation and I've worked to make that change happen. And yes – I've changed also.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

If you look at the issues I've been attacked on, nearly every one of them is for something well before 2008, it's as if my opponents want you to believe I served from 1972 until 2008 – and then took the next eight years off. They don't want to talk much about my time as vice president.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

Nobody is more committed to equal educational opportunity than I, but busing is not the way. It was a bad idea in theory, and it has turned out to be even worse in practice.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

There is a conceptual difference between desegregation and integration.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

In the 1980s and 1990s, violent crime was out of control. The crime bill was designed to deal with that problem. That's why it was supported overwhelmingly by the Democratic party, by African American leaders all across the nation including a majority of the black caucus in the Congress, it worked, it worked in some areas. But it failed in others. Like every major change, you go back and you make it better.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The fact of the matter is, I'm not beholden to banks. I supported the bankruptcy bill because I believe taking a very bad bill that was going to pass overwhelmingly and making it better made sense.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I'm still way ahead, if you notice, I'm the guy everybody's talking about.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

He's the bully that I knew my whole life. He's the bully that I've always stood up to.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

That's what this election is about. I'm happy to debate that issue and all those issues with my friends because guess what, look who won the races. Look who won last time out, by the way, I think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a primary. In the general election fights, who won ? Mainstream Democrats who are very progressive on social issues and very strong on education and healthcare.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

No, I don't. No, I don't, i think people should have to get in line, but if people are coming because they're actually seeking asylum, they should have a chance to make their case.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I have a plan how to do that that's rational, that will cost a hell of a lot less and that will work.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

How are you guys? Happy 4th of July.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

They let you wear that here?

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

Look, everybody faces pain, everybody has trauma. There's addiction in every family. I was in that darkness. I was in that tunnel -- it's a never-ending tunnel. You don't get rid of it. You figure out how to deal with it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

From the time they were born, including my children, they have been in the public eye. It's not a bad place but not an overwhelmingly comfortable place to be. Everything that happens is public knowledge. You get to celebrate publicly and you have to share your grief publicly. And so they're not naïve, the first hurdle for me was deciding whether or not I am comfortable taking the family through what would be a very, very difficult campaign.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I called my dad and said that we just got married. He was on speaker, and he said to her,' Thank you for giving my son the courage to love again,' and he said to me,' Honey, I knew that when you found love again that I'd get you back.'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I said,' I hope they're taking pictures of us right now. I hope it's a live feed to the President so Donald Trump can see just how much I care about the tweets,' i told Melissa,' I don't care. F *** you, Mr. President. Here I am, living my life.'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

We need to reform criminal justice, to make sure black mothers feel confident when they send their child, their son, out on the street -- he's going to be safe, we have to recognize that kid wearing the hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I was in a caucus with James Eastland. James Eastland never called me' boy.' James Eastland always called me' son,'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I agree that everybody once they -- anyway, my time is up. I'm sorry.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I'm holding onto that torch. I want to make that clear.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I was in a caucus with James Eastland. James Eastland never called me' boy,' James Eastland always called me' son,' well, guess what ? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I heard and I listened to and I respect Sen. California Sen. Kamala Harris, but, you know, we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds in a campaign debate exchange can't do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

California Sen. Kamala Harris need to reform criminal justice, to make sure black mothers feel confident when they send their child, their son, out on the street -- he's going to be safe, we have to recognize that kid wearing the hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gang-banger.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I did not oppose busing in America, what I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education, that's what I opposed.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I know I get criticized for saying we can unite the country, but ladies and gentlemen, I refuse to accept the status quo. The status quo of this miserable, ugly politics we have today guarantees we'll continue to do the same.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I never, never, never have opposed voluntary busing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The discussion in this race shouldn't be about the past.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The fact of the matter is that the quickest, fastest way to do it is build on Barack Obama, to build on what we did( during the Barack Obama administration), and, secondly, to make sure that everyone does have an option. Everyone, whether they have private insurance or employer insurance and no insurance, they, in fact, can buy in, in the exchange to a Medicare-like plan.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago US News

It's a mischaracterization of my position across the board: I did not praise racists. That is not true, if we want to have this campaign litigated on who supports civil rights and whether I did or not, I'm happy to do that.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

Donald Trump thinks Wall Street built America; ordinary middle class Americans built America, too many people in the middle class have seen the bottom fall out.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I was responsible for getting 150,000 combat troops out of Iraq and my son was one of them. I think we should not have combat troops in Afghanistan. It's long overdue and should end, you are not going to find anybody who pulled together more to deal with what is the real threat out there. We can not go it alone in terms of dealing with terrorism.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Donald Trump thinks Wall Street built America ; ordinary middle class Americans built America, too many people in the middle class have seen the bottom fall out. ... Look, Donald Trump put Joe Biden in a horrible situation. Joe Biden do have enormous income inequality. The one thing I agree on is Joe Biden can make massive cuts in the $ 1.6 billion in tax loopholes and I would be going about eliminating Donald Trump's tax cut for the wealthy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I did not oppose busing in America.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I'm still holding on to that torch.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Depending if they committed amajor crime, they should bedeported, president Obama, Ithink, did a heck of ajob.To compare him to what [Trump] is doing is absolutely --I find ... immoral. But the fact is that look, we should notbe locking people up.We should make sure we changethe circumstance as we did -- whythey would leave in the firstplace. And those who come seeking asylum,we should immediately have the capacity to absorb them [and] keep them safe until they can be heard.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 months ago Politics

It's imperative that we secure our borders, but 'build the wall' is a slogan divorced from reality.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

I have nothing against Amazon, but no company pulling in billions of dollars of profits should pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers. We need to reward work, not just wealth.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

It became really clear to me that although the Hyde Amendment was designed to split the difference ... you can't have access if everyone is covered by a federal policy.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

For you to stand and recall that brings it all back immediately -- it brings it back, and it's hard, so I just got to compliment you for your courage.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

At least there was some civility. We got things done, we didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished... But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

President Trump Iran strategy is President Trump Iran strategy, by walking away from diplomacy, President Trump has made military conflict more likely. Another war in Middle East is the last thing we need.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

We've already had five, just this year, five black transgender women killed violently in 2019 -- that's outrageous. It must, it must, it must end, and the fastest way to end it is, end the Trump administration.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Stopped by @TheStonewallNYC to celebrate #PrideMonth #WorldPride where the movement began 50 years ago.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

For all the hard-won progress, for as much as we can celebrate how much better things have gotten -- this fight is not over.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Look, I just think we got a lot of really good candidates out there and they're making their case and I don't, I don't put a whole lot in terms of labels, i'm not going to comment on Bernie's characterization of who or what it is. Bernie Sanders's sincere about what Bernie Sanders, what Bernie Sanders thinks and I think Bernie Sanders should go out and say it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Iowa farmers have been crushed by Donald Trump tariff war with China and no one knows better than the folks in Iowa. Donald Trump thinks that being tough is great, well it's really easy to be tough when someone else absorbs the pain : farmers, manufacturers, the automobile industry.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Apparently he had my speech on Air Force One, i guess he is really fascinated with me. I find it fascinating.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Look at Donald Trump and look at me and answer the question, it's self-evident, you know it's a ridiculous assertion on Donald Trump part.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I don't think The President really gets the basics.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

The fact of the matter is it was followed on by a guy who's a decent guy, our vice president, who stood before this group of allies and leaders and said,' I'm here on behalf of President Trump,' and there was dead silence, dead silence.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican Party has produced at least since Ive been around, and hes fresh. Hes new. Hes smart. Hes insightful. And I really regret that some have taken totally out of context my use of the word clean.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Latest Headlines

I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right, if I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's zip code.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

If I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's zip code.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

This idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration -- it did not generate mass incarceration.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to... exercise their constitutionally protected right, folks, the times have changed. I don't think these guys are going to let up.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

But circumstances have changed. I've been working through the final details of my health care plan like others in this race and I've been struggling with the problems that Hyde now presents.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Folks, the times have changed. I don't think these guys are going to let up.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I make no apologies for my last position and I make no apologies for what Im about to say, i cant justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Politics

I'm not joking, these are real jobs.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Environment

I'm calling for a Clean Energy Revolution to confront this crisis and do what America does best - solve big problems with big ideas.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Environment

I love Bernie, but I'm not Bernie Sanders, the folks at the top aren't bad guys.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

We loved each other, but we argued like the devil, but we still abided by the same values system, and that's why I love John McCain and that's why I think we need a lot more John McCain.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

My name is Joe Biden. I'm a Democrat. And I love John McCain.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

The President's comments are beneath the dignity of the office. To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former vice president speaks for itself.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

And just like everything else Donald Trump's been given in Donald Trump life, Donald Trump's in the process of squandering that, as well.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

I am running to offer our country -- Democrats, Republicans and independents -- a different path.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Social norms have begun to change, they have shifted and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset and I get it. I get it. I hear what they are saying. I will be more mindful and respectful of peoples personal space.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Opinion

This is not who we are, the way we are treating people.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Thank you for your donations, i promise you, I promise you, I promise you, I will try and not let you down.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

Youve got Jim Crow sneaking back in, you know what happens when you have an equal right to vote? They lose.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

Your state motto is, While I breathe, I hope, its not a joke. Were breathing, but God, we have got to have hope.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

Guess what? I probably shouldnt have done that, the presidency is an office that requires dignity and reestablishing respect and standing.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

This guy is going to go after me and family.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

The only place he has any confidence is in the mud.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

We have to rethink how we define what constitutes a successful economy. It's not enough for the stock market to rise. That's not a bad thing, but it's just not enough. Workers feel powerless, too often humiliated, we're tearing America apart instead of lifting it up.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

I'm sick of this President badmouthing unions, labor built the middle class in this country. Minimum wage, overtime pay, the 40-hour week : they exist for all of us because unions fought for those rights. We need a President who honors them and their work.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

Donald Trump is the only president who has decided not to represent the whole country. Donald Trump has Donald Trump base.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

I should be able to read better, i have to be more careful.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

I'm sorry she was treated the way she was treated.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

There were a lot of mistakes made across the board and for those I apologize.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

We saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

And they were met by a courageous group of Americans. And a violent clash ensued. And a brave young woman lost her life.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

I asked President Obama not to endorse and he doesn't want to, whoever wins this nomination should win this on their own merits.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, Donald Trump will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are and I can not stand by and watch that happen, the core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America America's at stake.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

( Trump) said there were quote some' very fine people' on both sides, with those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

This country can't afford more years of a president looking to settle personal scores.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

We can't be divided by race, religion, by tribe, in America, everybody gets a shot.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of the members of the Democratic Party are still basically liberal to moderate Democrats in the traditional sense, show me the really left -, left -, left-wingers who beat a Republican. So the idea that the Democratic Party has kind of stood on its head, I don't get.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Folks, this is not who we are.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

We're not only seatmates. We're soulmates, and we're friends, not only did he get me elected, he and Peatsy stood by me at both the happiest and saddest times of my life.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

The fact of the matter is I've made it clear that if I made anyone feel uncomfortable I feel badly about that, it was never my intention, ever, ever, ever.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Politics

You know, social norms have begun to change, they've shifted, and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset, and I get it, I get it, i hear what they're saying, I understand it, and I'll be much more mindful, that's my responsibility. My responsibility, and I'll meet it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

I hear what they're saying, I understand it, and I'll be much more mindful, that's my responsibility. My responsibility, and I'll meet it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

In my career, Ive always tried to make a human connection. That is my responsibility, I think, i shake hands, I hug people. I grab men and women by the shoulders and say, You can do this. Now its about taking selfies together. You know, social norms have begun to change. They have shifted, and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset, and I get it. I get it. I hear what they are saying. I understand it. And I will be much more mindful. That is my responsibility. It is my responsibility and I will meet it.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Opinion

In my career, Ive always tried to make a human connection, thats my responsibility, I think. I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say you can do this. And whether theyre women, men, young, old, its the way Ive always been. Its the way Ive tried to show I care about them and Im listening.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Politics

These smears and forgeries have existed in the dark recesses of the Internet for a while. And to this day, right-wing trolls and others continue to exploit them for their own gain.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Opinion

I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort. And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately, if it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Top News

In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort, and not once - never - did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort, and not once -- never -- did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Politics

I get criticized by the new left. I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the United... anybody who would run, i didn't mean... Of anybody who would run ! Because folks, we have to bring this country back together again.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Donald Trump has turned Donald Trump back on the very people Donald Trump promised to help. Remember how Donald Trump was going to help the middle class, the cops, the firefighters, construction workers, auto workers, farmers, teachers, home health care workers... so many folks in places like Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin who have been whipsawed by changing world economy and left behind draconian policies of this administration, everybody knows who Donald Trump is. We've got to be clear who we are, who we are. We've got to understand that we Democrats, we choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division and we choose truth over lies.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Cynthia Nixon're right, Cynthia Nixon. I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn't be given a silent reaction on the world stage, but there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes The President.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

I hope I don't come across as condescending, because I don't mean it. I hope The President has learned a really important lesson. Diplomacy matters. Preparation matters.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

It could potentially give( Joe Biden) a favorite son type status.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

I get in trouble.I read in New York Timesthat one of my problems is, if I ever to run for president, [ is ] I like Republicans, oK. Bless me Father, for I have sinned. But from where I come from, how doI get anything done ? I dont think anythinggets done until we start talking to one another again.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Opinion

The answer is that I'm running the traps on this. I don't want to make this a fool's errand, i'm a lot closer than I was before Christmas, and we'll make the decision soon.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

The one thing that's for certain is we are in my view in a battle for America's soul, i'm making a decision now whether or not I'm the right person because it's important, it's critically important that we change the atmosphere.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

We've learned in the last two years, it doesn't take much to awaken hate, to bring those folks out from under the rocks, that part of American society has always been there. Will always be here. But has been legitimized.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

You know I've been in this fight for a long time. It goes not just to voting rights. It goes to the criminal justice system.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

I am a gaffe machine, but my God what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can't tell the truth, i'm ready to litigate all those things. The question is what kind of nation are we becoming ? What are we going to do ? Who are we ?

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

Our journey as a family — yes, including my own difficulties with my marriage — have made us unbreakable. It isn't, of course, that we don't suffer. We do. The point is that we don't give up, no matter how much we suffer, so, you ask me, whether my father might not run for President because of reports about me in the news. What you fail to realize, in asking such a question, is that my father has always been proud of me — whether when I was volunteering for the Jesuits, or working as a lawyer. And he remains proud of me today. He loves me. And he loves the American people far too much to let any form of adversity stand in the way of service.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

So, you ask me, whether my father might not run for President because of reports about me in the news. What you fail to realize, in asking such a question, is that my father has always been proud of me — whether when I was volunteering for the Jesuits, or working as a lawyer, and he remains proud of me today. He loves me. And he loves the American people far too much to let any form of adversity stand in the way of service.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

The important aspect of my complicated divorce( like all divorces) and an equally complicated life, marked by the tragic loss of my mother, sister and brother is this : My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life, even though my life has been played out in the media, because I am a Joe Biden, my father never once suggested that the family's public profile should be my priority. The priority has always been clear for my dad, as it is, now, for me : Never run from a struggle. Love people and find a way to love yourself. And remember that the two things are very much connected.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Hallie and I are incredibly lucky to have found the love and support we have for each other in such a difficult time, and that's been obvious to the people who love us most. We've been so lucky to have family and friends who have supported us every step of the way.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I want to be able to, when my life is finished, be able to say to Former Vice President Joe Biden that I kept my commitment to Beau, that I didn't walk away, that I stayed engaged in all the issues that have animated my life my whole life, i want to spend as much time as I can with my family. I have five grandchildren who adore me.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

I think on the domestic policy front we can change it back, on foreign policy, I'm more worried. I'm more worried because I think if we have... six more years of the last two years, I think you'll see the end of NATO. I think you'll see the end of our alliance.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Your guy calls farmers' concerns hysteria and says they don't have a very high threshold for pain, well I get that president of the trade unions up here and he'll show him a threshold of pain.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

We are in a battle for America's soul.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

I am sick and tired of this administration. I am sick and tired of what's going on, i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I hope you are too.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I've had the chance to know Abby for the past 11 years, way back from the days she was organizing volunteers in Iowa in 2007, during her time as a State Representative the last 4 years, she has stood up with courage and passion for working families across the state and I can't wait to see her work for a better tomorrow for our country.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

We have to choose truth over lies. We have to choose a brighter future for Americans over this desperate grip of the darkest element of our past in our society.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

It's time to get up, lift our heads up. Remember who the hell we are, this is America. Let's take back the Senate and we'll change the world as we know it ! Now !

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

They're being shredded by a President who's all about himself. Las Vegas's all about Donald. Las Vegas's not about anything else.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

The woman should be given the benefit of the doubt and not be abused again by the system, my biggest regret was, I didn't know how I could shut you off because you were a senator and you were attacking Anita Hill character. ... Anita Hill character got victimized during the process.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I think age is a totally legitimate thing to raise, i think it's totally appropriate for people to look at me and say, if I were to run for office again,' Well God darn you're old.' Well chronologically I am old.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I know Beau would want me to run, but honest answer is no man or woman should ask for your vote for president unless they with all your heart and soul can look you in the eye and say' I promise you all my effort, all my attention, all, all my heart, all of my soul,'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

No, no, no ! thank you. It's very flattering.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

A lot of you have been through a lot tougher times than I and you know when you lose a son or a daughter. It takes some time for the family to sort of be there. We're working through it, i know Beau would want me to run, but honest answer is no man or woman should ask for your vote for president unless they with all your heart and soul can look you in the eye and say' I promise you all my effort, all my attention, all, all my heart, all of my soul,'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I think age is a totally legitimate thing to raise, i think it's totally appropriate for people to look at me and say if I were to run for office again,' Well God darn you're old.' Well chronologically I am old.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

They have a very different view of our relationship with Europe, and although there's a lot of changes we have to make in that world order to accommodate the changes that have taken place in the last 70 years, we believe very strongly at the Biden Institute that it's not to throw out, throw out the liberal world order, the worst thing in the world we can have is this new naked nationalism America first. I believe making America first, in the way we're doing it, will make America last.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

On the global stage, there's fear, confusion and doubt, they are friend and foe and uncertain alike are wondering what's happened. They see an American acting more like one of Putin's poodles than the leader of the free world.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I think you're going to see a significant change in the politics of the country, and I think lot of it had to do with the way in which the administration has treated people, i think the nail that maybe have put in the coffin this time was the way in which the administration responded to John McCain death, and the way it came across as being so nakedly... almost un-American. It was just raw. It wasn't -- it's not who we are.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 12 months ago Top News

It wasn't about politics with Senator John McCain, senator John McCain could disagree on substance, but the underlying values that animated everything John did, everything Senator John McCain was, come to a different conclusion. Senator John McCain'd part company with you if you lacked the basic values of decency, respect, knowing this project is bigger than yourself.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 12 months ago Top News

The worst thing in the world we can have is this new naked nationalism, America first. I believe making America first in the way we're doing it will make America last.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 12 months ago Top News

I've been with these guys my whole life, these are the guys that brung me to the dance, as the saying goes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I'm clearly not as smart as Trump, the smartest man in the world, but I have a relatively high IQ.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said,' I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I shouldn't have said what I said. I shouldn't have brought it up again because I don't want to get down in the mosh pit with this guy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We're in a fight for the soul of America, everything.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

No, we always can renegotiate everything we have to make it better, but not the way( President Donald Trump in style) is going about this.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I always thought of John Kelly as a brother, we had a hell of a lot of family fights. We go back a long way.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I always thought of John McCain memorialsRhonda Zuck as a brother, we had a hell of a lot of family fights. We go back a long way.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We both loved the Senate. Proudest years of my life were being a United States senator. I was honored to be a United States senator, we both lamented, watching United States change.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

John believed in the American people, not just the preambles. He believed in the American people.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Believe always in the promise and greatness in America because nothing is inevitable here, he wanted America to be reminded and to understand.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

John McCain’s impact on America is not over, it is not hyperbole. It is not over. I don’t think it’s even close.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

John is going to take his rightful place in a long line of extraordinary leaders in this nation’s history, who in their own way stood for freedom and liberty, i know John said he hoped to play a small part in that story. John, you did much more than that, my friend.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Flattering dictators will not advance American interests. It makes us less safe.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

The reason why the rest of the world in large part has repaired to us is not the example of our power, but the power of our example.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

This wholly unnecessary crisis could ultimately put the safety of our country and our fellow citizens, including thousands of men and women in uniform serving across the Middle East, at risk by setting us back on a path to war with Iran.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago US News

John McCain knows John McCain's in a very, very, very precarious situation, and yet John McCain's still concerned about the state of the country.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think the idea of focusing significant resources on interdicting or convicting people for smoking marijuana is a waste of our resources, that's different than [ legalization ]. Our policy for our Administration is still not legalization, and that is [ and ] continues to be our policy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I know that by January, I'll have to make that decision, if God Almighty himself came down today and said,' The nomination is yours,' I'd say no. Where I'll be in eight months, I don't know. In the meantime, I'll do everything I can to be sure we elect a Democratic Congress this fall.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Donald Trump and Joe Biden asked me if I ’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘ no. ’ I said, ‘ If we were in high school, I ’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Entertainment

America will never, ever, ever stand down, we are Boston. We are America. We respond, we endure, we overcome and we own the finish line.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I think I could've won, do I regret not being president? Yes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Yeah, I am. I'm going to run in 2020.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

College campuses are communities.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago US News

We came to Toronto with three specific goals: to make sure the global (economic) recovery is strong and durable; to continue reforming the financial system; and to address the range of global issues that affect our prosperity and security. And we made progress in each of these areas.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I hope that the current administration lives up to the promises it has made to advance human rights for everyone by raising this issue directly with Russia's leaders, the United States must lead the way to demand an end to these egregious violations of human rights.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I call 17 Republicans and say, ‘ You know better, ’ nine of them said to me, ‘ You’re right Joe, but I ca n’t do anything about it because if I do the Koch brothers or somebody is going to drop $ 5 million into my race and I ’ll lose my primary. ’.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Some will criticize such a decision and say that it was nothing more than an attempt to save a seat on the court in hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it, but that would not be our intention.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

The answer is that I had planned on running for president, and although it would've been a difficult primary, I think I could've won, i don't know. Maybe not, but I thought I could've won.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I don't regret not running in the sense that it was the right decision for my boy, for me, for my family at the time, but do I regret not being president? Yes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I didn't run because no man or woman should announce for President of the United States unless they can look the public in the eye and say, 'I promise you I'm giving 100% of my attention and dedication to this effort,' i knew I couldn't do that.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

But do I regret not being president? Yes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Opinion

He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break. That’s a bunch of malarkey.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We are watching Iran like a hawk, if Iran violates the deal the U.S. will act. The U.S. will act. Our commitment is unambiguous.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

There is no excuse for killing innocents or remaining silent in the face of terrorism.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We're committed to making sure that Israel can defend itself against all serious threats, maintain its qualitative edge with a quantity sufficient to maintain that.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Let's change the culture, we must, and we can.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Entertainment

Everything I said was completely accurate, i just never until last Tuesday night told the whole story.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Barack Obama made that decision knowing if it was wrong, his career was over. I wanted the public to know this is a man with a backbone of steel, that's why I said it. And had I said, but, by the way, when I went up privately I told him to go, it would look like I was self-aggrandizing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

As we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I said, I told him my opinion that I thought he should go but to follow his own instinct.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I just never until last Tuesday night told the whole story.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I hope I leave office ... as a respected figure who can convene people and bring people together. and I just think the president and I talked about what we do together. What we each want to do out of office.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I think we can make some real progress, particularly with Paul Ryan, who is a good guy, on working toward an accommodation on the budget and on keeping the government open.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I believe that President Obama has led this nation from crisis to recovery, and we're now on the cusp of resurgence, i'm proud to have played a part in that. This party, our nation, will be making a tragic mistake if we walk away or attempt to undo the Obama legacy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I've concluded it has closed.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

This party, our nation will be making a tragic mistake if we walk away or attempt to undo the Obama legacy, the American people have worked too hard and we've come too far for The American people. Democrats should not only defend this record and protect this record, The American people should run on the record.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The other team is not the enemy, if you treat it as the enemy, there is no way we can ever solve the problems we have to.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I believe that we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can, it's mean-spirited, it's petty, and it's gone on for much too long. I don't believe, like some do, that it's naive to talk to Republicans. I don't think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition. They're not our enemies.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

While I will not be Joe Biden, I will not be silent, i intend to speak out clearly and forcefully, to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

As we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I said - I told him my opinion that I thought he should go, but follow his own instincts, i never... say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval( Office) with him alone.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I don't think my chief enemy is the Republican party. This is a matter of making things work.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Politics

I think it plays to his strengths already, in that he is a fairly empathetic figure and he seems very likeable. The tragedy he has gone through only highlights that, but it will be a very short run. While people will obviously be very sympathetic to him because of it, I don't imagine many people's votes will change because of it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

For the rest of our life -- my sisters and my brother -- my dad never failed to remind us that a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in the community, you never quit on America. And you deserve a president who will never quit on you.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

It's just not there yet and it may not get there in time to make it feasible to be able to run and succeed, because there are certain windows that will close, but if that's it, that's it. It's not like I can rush it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

America, everybody thinks it's all about what the numbers say.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I've known almost every person that's run for president since I've been 29 years old and it all gets down to personal considerations, because you have no right as an individual to decide to run, your whole family is implicated. Your whole family is engaged. So for us it's a family decision.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Everybody thinks it's all about what the numbers say.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I admire Pope Francis deeply and I’m excited about his upcoming visit, pope Francis has become a moral rudder for the world on some of the most important issues of our time, from inequality to climate change. I look forward to seeing him again soon.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

There's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Folks, the American people are with us. I know it doesn't feel that way, but I'm telling you, I'm telling you the American people agree with us.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I don't think any man or woman should run for president unless number 1, they know exactly why they would want to be president and number 2, they can look folks out there and sayI promise Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and my passion to do this, and I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

All of a sudden I lost it, that's not, I shouldn't be saying this: You can’t do that.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there, nobody has a right, in my view, to seek that office unless they’re willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I am gonna run part of the parade, i feel like I am home right now.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

Joe Biden trotted onto the stage and along the parade route, but deflected questions about whether Joe Biden will challenge Clinton and surging Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. I am definitely going to run part of this parade.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

It used to be when productivity went up in America, everybody got to share. The people who caused the productivity increase, they got to share. They got a piece of the action, something is wrong, folks.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I have as of today traveled 992,894 miles for the President, i have met virtually every major leader in the world. I know these guys. I know them better than anyone in the administration because I've been hanging around so long.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I go way back, back when I got to be a young U.S. senator, with some of your help, as a 29-year-old kid ... I wanted to engage in foreign policy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I can only notice a couple of you around the room that may be in my category in terms of longevity.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I came because Beau wanted me to come, the reason is to say, 'Thank you.' This is where I got started.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

If I were to announce to run, I have to be able to commit to all of you that I would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul, and right now both are pretty well banged up and we're trying to figure out that issue.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I wish everything I said that's truthful -- but controversial -- would turn out this way.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It's the greatest city in the world, and it requires a 21st-century infrastructure.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Company News

I think we'll be all right.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

My mom came along -- I have two moms now -- who came along in 1977 and rebuilt our family, and helped my dad rebuild our family, she's an incredible mother.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Most of the drama doesn't come to our dinner table. We talk about what my kids are doing -- his grandkids -- my brother's three kids, my sister, we talk about the family, most of the time it's not about politics.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

No, I don't have any comment, i don't know enough about it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We are on the verge of resurgence, if we are wise, america is not only back, it is leading the world again.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

When the middle class does well, everybody does well. The economy expands, just give them a fighting chance.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Presidential campaigns are now talking about spending $2 billion, $2 billion, the simple truth is we can't have a government that fights for the middle class if it is owned by the big money.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

These are good guys, they aren't doing anything wrong, they are not doing anything illegal.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We need leaders who have courage to stand up to these mountains of money.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community, i might add if you ever come to the train station with me you’ll notice I have great relationships with them because there’s an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I’m not being solicitous. I’m being serious.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I might add if you come to the train station with me you'll notice I have great relationships with them because there's an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We need answers that go beyond force, countries -- all of us, including the United States -- we have to work from the ground up and engage our communities and engage those who might be susceptible to being radicalized because they are marginalized.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I used to be a stutterer, i am very involved with the National Stuttering Association and speech therapy, so...

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Neil, I miss you man. I miss you.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Ukraine is fighting for their very survival right now, russia continues to escalate the conflict by sending mercenaries and tanks we euphemistically [call].

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

President Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

It's an uncommon fraternity.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

Now, that was a euphemism, i thought I was really, really in trouble. My father never once raised his hand to any one of his children — never once — and I thought I was in trouble. He pulled me aside and said, 'Joey, you shouldn't do that, but I'm proud of you, son.'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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