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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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Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids

– Joe Biden

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Anyone can't get a test around the country. Granted, more tests are coming forward, but look, this needless complacency that The President has engaged in from the very beginning, the President knew about this crisis all the way back in January and February. The President's been incompetent the way in which The President responded to it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

It turns out corruption is a feature of this economic agenda, not a bug. You know, he's gon na pick his wealthy friends, his corporate cronies over working families every time, we're already seeing the tell-tale hallmarks of Trumponomics in the way he is implementing the crisis response efforts : no strings, no oversight, no accountability.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

I'm following the rules, the President should follow the rules instead of showing up in places without masks and the whole thing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

I'm working with Bernie Sanders and with Bernie Sanders people. And so, and we've made some changes. We've listened to Bernie Sanders supporters and, you know, for example, we have Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is on one of the panels.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

Any dollar that goes to someone that does not merit it under the law, any dollar taken corruptly, we will find it, we will come get it and we will punish the wrongdoers, that should start tomorrow. But if it doesn't, it will start on January 20, 2021.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 9 months ago U.S.

Let me issue a warning right now to anyone who participates in the corrupt giveaways of President Trump and his administration.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 9 months ago U.S.

The trust you all have put in me as your presumptive nominee is humbling.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago U.S.

Covid is the match that lit the fire. But Donald Trump has spent the last three years stoking and kindling and undermining the core pillars of our economic strength.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

Yes, many small businesses closed because of Covid, but the reason why many will not open is because, for the last three years Donald Trump has put the very well off and corporate America first, and has put forward plans with' no strings, no oversight, no accountability,'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

There isn't any question that they're going to use this crisis to try to further divide and attack our community, even more than they have, the White House shouldn't be a source of oppression and fear. The White House should be a source of moral courage.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women... are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I can hardly wait to get President Trump on Zoom on a debate stage.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Come on, Mr. President. I can hardly wait.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

I'm so lucky to have you be a part of this partnership going forward, working together, we can make a great deal of progress. ... I'm coming for you, kid.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I'd take her in a heartbeat.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

The uncomfortable truth is that this president left America exposed and vulnerable to this pandemic, he ignored the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies, and put his trust in China's leaders instead.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I wouldn't call it a plan. I think what he's done, he's kind of punted.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 10 months ago U.S.

The uncomfortable truth is that Donald Trump left America exposed and vulnerable to this pandemic. He ignored the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies and put his trust in China's leaders instead.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

And now, we're all paying the price.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

These are flat out dictators. Period. And they should be called for it, straight up.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

Gretchen Whitmer is Gretchen Whitmer, gretchen Whitmer is one of the most talented people in the country, in my view.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

Trump spent vital weeks praising China's response as successful and transparent while deceiving the American people about the extreme threat we faced and failing to prepare our country, china played Donald Trump for a sucker, and now all of us are paying an atrocious price for his malpractice.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

Senator Sanders and his supporters can take pride in their work in laying the groundwork for these ideas, and Im proud to adopt them as part of my campaign at this critical moment in responding to the coronavirus crisis.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 10 months ago Politics

You have to start now deciding who you're going to have background checks done on as vice presidential candidates and it takes time.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

[ O ] ne of the ways to deal with age is to build a bench -- to build a bench of younger, really qualified people who haven't had the exposure that others have had but are fully capable of being the leaders of the next four, eight, 12,16 years to run the country.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

I see you, I hear you, and I understand the urgency of what it is we have to get done in this country, i hope you will join us. You are more than welcome. You're needed.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

It's going to be a really rough and I suspect pretty mean campaign.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

The idea that this man stood up and he said what had to be said, got it out that ... his Navy personnel were in danger, the guy, he should have a commendation rather than be fired.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago U.S.

Listen to the experts, do what they tell you. He may not like how he looks in a mask, but the truth of the matter is that – follow the science, that's what they're telling us.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

He's moving too slow, the virus is not his fault, but the response is his responsibility.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

I was basically apologizing and making it clear that I wasn't trying to be presumptuous, in any way push him, and he said he appreciated that.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

We may have to do a virtual convention.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I am in the process and I've actually had this discussion with Bernie Sanders because Bernie Sanders's a friend -- we're competitors, Bernie Sanders's Bernie Sanders.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

There's an enormous number of really qualified people, and one of the ways to deal with age is to build a bench... to build a bench of younger, really qualified people.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

If Lord Almighty came down and said you're President tomorrow, write down in the next 15 minutes your Cabinet, I think I could do it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Donald Trump's Acting Navy Secretary shot the messenger - a commanding officer who was faithful to both his national security mission and his duty to care for his sailors, and who rightly focused attention on a broader concern about how to maintain military readiness during this pandemic, and the Navy sent a chilling message to the rest of the fleet about speaking truth to power. The poor judgment here belongs to the Trump Administration, not a courageous officer trying to protect his sailors.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

I think it could be done based on what I'm hearing from the news and what I understand the governor and others are saying. But that's for them to decide.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I doubt whether the Democratic convention is going to be able to be held in mid-July.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

This is not personal. It has nothing to do with you, Donald Trump, nothing to do with you, do your job. Stop personalizing everything.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

This is a war, and these are our soldiers, as President, I wouldn't send an American soldier anywhere in the world without all the equipment and protection they need. We should not do any less for the heroes on the frontlines in this battle we're in now.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

We are seeing the soul of America now. Take a look at what is happening. Everywhere you look, you see people reaching out to help The American people, this is an incredible nation. The American people are generous, decent, good, fair, bright, and it makes you so proud to be an American.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I've lost a couple children, I've lost a wife and it is incredibly difficult to go through and it's harder to go through when you haven't had an opportunity to be with the person while they're dying.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Now he's suggesting he wants to get the country back opened by Easter, it would be a catastrophic thing to do for our people and for our economy if we sent people back to work just as we were beginning to see the impact of social distancing take hold only to unleash a second spike in infections.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

It would be a catastrophic thing to do for our people and for our economy if we sent people back to work just as we were beginning to see the impact of social distancing take hold only to unleash a second spike in infections.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

Tim Murtaugh should stop talking and start listening to the medical experts.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

My focus is just dealing with this crisis right now. I haven't thought about any more debates. I think we've had enough debates. I think we should get on with this.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

This is no time for Donald Trumps record of hysteria and xenophobia -- hysterical xenophobia --and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Politics

I think it's up to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as I've said, I was asked this question about every other person that had been in the race. It's not for me to tell them to drop out.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

Joe Biden says Joe Biden's a war-time president -- well God, act like one. Move. Fast.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I think we ought to be able to conduct our democratic processes as well as deal with this issue, that decision will be made as the state of the nation at the moment, but I don't think it should be called off.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

He should stop talking and start to listen to the medical experts who talk about having an economic crisis, you want an economic crisis ? Watch this spike. Watch the number of dead go up. Watch the number of people, who in fact, connect with this virus.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

You're going to be seeing a lot more of me on television and on - excuse me, teleconferencing - as well as online.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

I know there's a lot of rumors and speculation as to, is the other guy going to try to postpone the election in November and all that. There's no need to do that, you know, we voted in the middle of the Civil War, we voted in the middle of World War One and Two.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

I've actually talked to Barack about this - the most important thing is that it has to be someone who, the day after they're picked, is prepared to be president of the United States of America if something happened.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

I have to start that vetting process relatively soon, meaning in a matter of weeks.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

President Trump neglected, minimized, and lied about this virus, stop lying and start acting. Use the full extent of your authorities, now, to ensure that we are producing all essential goods and delivering them.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

Fortunately I don't have any of the underlying conditions, i wash my hands God knows how many times a day.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

If I'm elected president, my Cabinet, my administration, will look like the country, and I commit that I will in fact appoint and pick a woman as vice president. There are a number of women who are qualified to be president tomorrow. I would pick a woman as my vice president.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

This is bigger than any one of us, this calls for a national rallying, first of all, we have to take care of those who are in fact exposed or likely to be exposed to the virus.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

Bernie's implication is somehow I'm being funded by millionaires, in Super Tuesday and before that, Bernie outspent me 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-to-1. And I still won. I didn't have any money and I still won!

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

You don't take campaign contributions from them, you take them on and create an economy that works for all.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

People are looking for results not a revolution ... we can do that by making sure we make everybody whole who has been so badly hurt in terms of they lose a job, in terms of not having the ability to care for their children, in terms of the healthcare costs .. we can make them whole, now, and put in process whereby they are all made whole. That has nothing to do with the legitimate concern about income inequality in America. That's real. But that does not affect the need for us to act swiftly.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

This is like we are being attacked from abroad.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

It has nothing to do with Medicare For All — that would not solve the problem at all. We can take care of that right now by making sure that no one has to pay for treatment period because of the crisis.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Politics

I'd add Senator Warren to the list, but Elizabeth WarrenWarren's going to be very angry at my having said that. ... The question is would Elizabeth WarrenWarren add me made to Elizabeth WarrenWarren list.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Were responding, its all free, you dont have to pay for a thing. That has nothing to do with whether or not you have an insurance policy. This is a crisis. Were at war with the virus.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 11 months ago Politics

While our campaign has won the ideological debate, we are losing the debate over electability.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago U.S.

At this moment, when there's so much fear in the country and so much fear across the world, we need American leadership, we need presidential leadership that's honest, trusted, truthful and steady, reassuring leadership.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I want to thank Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders supporters for Bernie Sanders and his supporters tireless energy and passion. We share a common goal. Together we'll defeat President Donald Trump. We'll defeat President Donald Trump together. We'll bring this nation together.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

As I said all along, we would follow the guidance of the CDC, state and local officials and public health officials with respect to our campaign events, we'll continue to do that.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

This is a matter, this whole coronavirus - is a matter of presidential leadership, later this week, I'll be speaking to you on what I believe the nation should be doing to address this virus.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

She knew Beau, she knows me.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I want to thank Bernie Sanders on Tuesday and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday supporters for Bernie Sanders and his supporters tireless energy and Bernie Sanders and his supporters passion.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I want to thank Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ' and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ' supporters for Bernie Sanders and his supporters tireless energy and Bernie Sanders and his supporters passion, we share a common goal and together we will defeat Donald Trump. We will defeat Donald Trump together. We are going to bring this nation together.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I'm looking to the CDC for advice on that.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

The Bernie bros are here, let 'em go.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

Folks, look, we're going to unite Democrats, Republicans, independents of every stripe. That's what the nation needs. We've got to bring the country together.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

They're all capable of being president.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

We're going to unite this party and unite this country.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

If I am the comeback kid, there's only one reason I've come back: the African-American community all around the country.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

I do not accept a world where we can not stand up and say' no more' to the voices that offer empty words in the aftermath of tragedy, then oppose change and fuel this cycle of carnage, together, we can defeat the NRA and end this epidemic.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 12 months ago Politics

Because we know how important it is to beat President Trump.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 12 months ago Politics

Joe Biden said. Joe Biden spoke only for about 10 minutes but took a jab at rival Sen. Senator Sanders, who has staked Joe Biden campaign on the ability to bring more Americans -- particularly young people -- out in droves to the polls. Senator Sanders likes to say hell need a record turnout to defeat Donald Trump. Hes right, but were the campaign thats going to do that record turnout.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 12 months ago Politics

What a difference a week makes !

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 12 months ago Politics

Folks, you are all part of the movement... A movement that is going to defeat Donald Trump and restore this nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 12 months ago Politics

We've already raised about 22 million bucks just in 5 days.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Politics

I'm here to report: We are very much alive.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 12 months ago People

My message is people are not looking for revolution. They're looking for results. I have the most extensive, successful record of getting big things done and big things passed.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

And folks, I wasn't joking : Amy Klobuchar won all of the debates.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I don't think I've ever done this before, but he reminds me of my son, Beau, and folks, I wasn't joking : Amy Klobuchar won all of the debates.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The door is open.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Democrats want a nominee who is a Democrat, win big or lose, that's the choice. Most Americans don't want the promise of a revolution. They want more than promises they want results.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

My buddy Jim Clyburn, you brought me back!

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We all have to sit down and get serious about how we retool this campaign, i'm not going to sit back idly and watch people mishandle this campaign.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We don't have as many resources as Mr. Bloomberg, but we believe that we've done our work and frankly we do believe that the momentum from this week will help propel us into Super Tuesday.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

If you send me out of here with a victory that's significant then I think I'm going to be the next nominee, we really can't afford to let Donald Trump have four more years.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Trump and Pence decided that the public health experts cannot inform the public on their own what's going on, now the president won't let other people tell the truth.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I'm here to earn it. But, folks, I intend to win in South Carolina, and I will win the African-American vote here in South Carolina.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Today people are talking about a revolution, what the country's looking for are results. What they're looking for is security. What they're looking for is to be able to sustain and maintain their dignity.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

They hogtied young men in prison here in this state. They in fact made sure that in Georgia they did not have health care for the people that were being held, you wrote the crime bill.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Imagine if I stood here and said we give immunity to drug companies, we give immunity to tobacco companies. That has caused carnage on our streets, 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability, more than all the wars, including Vietnam from that point on.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

If Im elected, NRA [the National Rifle Association], Im coming for you and gun manufacturers, Im gonna take you on and Im gonna beat you.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Imagine being a man or woman who breaks their neck working a full-time job and literally worried that their kid will not have a place to rest their head at night.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Arts

Joe Biden, whose struggling campaign got only a slight boost in Nevada, took an indirect swipe bothBloomberg and Bernie Sanders, who is an independent and not a member of the party hes seeking to represent in November. I aint a socialist. Im not a plutocrat. Im a Nevada Democrats.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I don't expect anything. I am here to earn your vote, you can own this election. It's yours to determine.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

We can prioritize either ideological purity or inclusive victory, we can either call people names online or we can call them into our movement. We can either tighten a narrow and hardcore base or open the tent to a new, broad, big-hearted American coalition.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

The press is ready to declare people dead quickly, but we're alive and we're coming back and we're gonna win.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

And the way he refers to people of color. ... I'm not even going to repeat the language he used about why he was doing this.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's just wrong, how can you run against Donald Trump when you have, what is it, 10, 12, 14 NDAs ?

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

He's advertising himself to be Barack's best buddy.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's not whether you apologize or not, it's the policy... And it was in fact a violation of every right people have.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

The way it works is they say,' Look, this is what you did to me, and the mayor comes along and his attorneys say, I will give you this amount of money if you promise you'll never say anything. That's how it works.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The mayor said, when we passed it, the signature piece of this administration, it's a disgrace, they're the exact words. It was a disgrace. Look it up, check it out, it was a disgrace.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

There's a lot to talk about with Michael Bloomberg.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'm confident we'll win South Carolina. I think we'll win or be in a very tight race, one or two, in Nevada.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I'm the only one running that has ever gotten big things done.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

It's amazing how every single thing I've said for the last 40 years has come up and I've answered them all, we're just now getting into the place we're looking at other people's records.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Pete Buttigieg is right around 4% in the African-American community - Amy Klobuchar is at 0.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

The fight to end Donald Trump's presidency is just beginning, it ain't over man. We're just getting started.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

African American voters just heard from the first two of 50 states, where I come from African American voters's the opening bell, not the closing bell. The fight to end Donald Trump's presidency is just beginning.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

No matter what happens in this state...I'm going to keep moving.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Trump is going to tell us over and over again the economy is on the ballot this year.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

No matter what happens in this state ... I'm going to keep moving.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Oh come on, man, this guy's not Barack Obama.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

One of the reasons why that city, in South Bend, did well is because I was able to direct about $ 65 million there from Recovery Act. So I'm not picking on Pete Buttigieg, I'm just responding to Pete Buttigieg.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Do I think there's a difference between getting a city budget passed in South Bend -- smaller than the city of Manchester ? Or getting three Republicans to vote for a $ 900 billion recovery act, that saved us and generated less than 1 % waste for fraud ? Yeah, I do.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It's a long race. I took a hit in Iowa and I'll probably take it here.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Bernie has labeled himself, not me, a democratic socialist. I think that's the label that the president is going to lay on everyone running with Bernie if he is the nominee.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

This is a long race. I took a hit in Iowa, and I'll probably take a hit here.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Stand up and clap for Vindman.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I'm not gon na sugarcoat it. We took a gut punch in Iowa.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Nine months ago, I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force and I would vote that way again today. It was the right vote then and would be a correct vote today.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I expected to do better and I expected that our organization would perform better. But the fact is I'm happy to be here in New Hampshire.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It has nothing to do with your intelligence quotient. It has nothing to do with your intellectual makeup.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

So what I do, if I say,' The Democratic presidential town hall is tonight on CNN,' I'll say :' The Democratic presidential town hall, slash, is on The Democratic presidential town hall, slash, it's going to have the following people, slash, Anderson Cooper is going to speak, slash.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

How can we beat Donald Trump if we're not perceived as being totally authentic with the American people about what we're gon na do and how we're gon na do it ? what it's gon na cost and who's gon na pay ?

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

God, it's good to be in New Hampshire.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I just wanted to say we're in a red zone here, i know the Super Bowl is today. We're at the 10-yard line -- and you know, a touchdown is the only way to win this thing right now.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I refuse to believe that the other side is our enemy and not a competitor.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I want no part of that, people ask the question, isnt the president going to be stronger and harder to beat if he survives this ? Yes, probably. But Congress has no choice.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

As Bernie Sanders Joe Biden said in 2015 :' Joe Biden is a man who has devoted Joe Biden entire life to public service and to the wellbeing of working families and the middle class,'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's simply a lie, that video is a lie, i'm looking for his campaign to come forward and disown it but they haven't done it yet.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

The President showed up, met with The President, gave The President legitimacy, weakened the sanctions we have against The President.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Quite frankly, I think Daniel Dale's flat-out lied about saying that the reason Daniel Dale went after -- the reason Daniel Dale made the strike was because our embassies were about to be bombed.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to give Vice President the authority to go to war if, in fact, Vice President couldn't get inspectors into Iraq to stop what was thought to be the attempt to get a nuclear weapon. It was a mistake.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I have no illusions about Iran. The regime has long sponsored terrorism and threatened our interests. They've ruthlessly killed hundreds of protesters, and they should be held accountable for their actions, but there is a smart way to counter them - and a self-defeating way. Trump's approach is demonstrably the latter.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

We need to provide a steady, stable, experienced leadership. With all due respect, I think I'm best prepared than of anybody running for president right now.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The more the walls close in on this guy, the more irrational he becomes.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We have a cultural problem. A cultural problem.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

I'm excited to share that we raised $ 22.7 million this last quarter -- our biggest quarter so far this campaign ! thank Entrepreneur Andrew Yang campaign to everyone who chipped in what Entrepreneur Andrew Yang campaign could -- Entrepreneur Andrew Yang campaign support means the world to me. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang campaign truly are the heart of our campaign.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Whoever I would pick for vice president, and there's a lot of qualified women, there's a lot of qualified African-Americans. There really truly are. There's a plethora of really qualified people. Whomever I would pick were I fortunate enough to be your nominee, I'd pick somebody who was simpatico with me, who knew what I, what my priorities were and knew what I wanted to, we could disagree on tactic, but strategically we'd have to be in the exact same page.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It sounds stupid -- when I get up in the morning, I think about you know, I hope he's proud of me. I hope he's proud.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

What I've seen change is that the vast majority of labor now supports it.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

This is not anything like what he supported and he introduced.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

You also supported another man I admire, I don't know nearly as well, but I admire ... Mitt Romney, who is a man of honor and decent man.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I refuse to accept the notion - as some on this stage do - that we can never never get to a place where we have cooperation again. If that's the case, we are dead as a country, if anyone has reason to be angry with the Republicans and not want to cooperate it's me.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Well I don't think they( the American people) really do like the economy, this economy isn't working for most of us.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

President Trump abused his power, violated his oath of office, and betrayed our nation.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

No, because everyone knows I'm close with Joe Rospars, i don't need an President Barack Obama endorsement.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

President Trump abused his power, violated his oath of office, and betrayed our nation, this is a solemn moment for our country. But in the United States of America, no one is above the law -- not even the President.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

We've got to stand together with @UniteHere11 for affordable health care and fair wages. A job is about more than just a paycheck. It's about dignity.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

But you can't dictate who is going to be the nominee, who's going to be able to garner votes, who's going to be able to stay in the race.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Kamala Harris was capable of being anything from president to vice president to secretary, to be a Supreme Court justice, to be an attorney general. I mean, but, you know, who controls that except the candidates themselves ?

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

A president is not allowed to say, 'This is how I'm changing the tax structure, this is how I'm changing the environment,' you need to actually get a consensus in the constitutional process.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

You're a damn liar, man, no one has said my son has done anything wrong.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

No one has said my son has done anything wrong.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

You're a damn liar man, that's not true and no one has ever said that.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I have overwhelming respect and love for my son. And I find Joe Biden occasionally getting frustrated with assertions that have been made -- that are simply not accurate, but as my son would say,' Dad, just keep your cool, just don't let it get to you.'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

You want to check my shape -- let's do push-ups together man. Let's run, let's do whatever you want to do.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

What I wanted to do is shut this down.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Let's keep our eye on the ball here.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

And when we can't work with them, we go out and defeat them.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I learned, number one, that Donald Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. That's pretty clear.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

Right now, with Democrats, they couldn't pass the House. Nancy Pelosi is one of those people who think it doesn't make sense. We should build on Obamacare.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

I come out of the black community in terms of my support.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I trust the American people to make a judgment about what is in their interest, and not demand of them what the insurance companies want.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

But let me tell you the truth of the matter is, there's not nearly been enough evidence that has been acquired as to whether or not it is a gateway drug, it's a debate, and I want a lot more -- before I legalize it nationally -- I want to make sure we know a lot more about the science behind it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Michael is a talented man, has a little bit of money and can be engaged as long as he wants, but I just think that the way the system is set up now, there are four gates you have to get through to get to Super Tuesday and on, and they are Iowa caucus, New Hampshire primary, Nevada caucus and South Carolina primary.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I was responding to a comment Elizabeth Warren made, elizabeth Warren said that anyone who disagreed with Elizabeth Warren and took Elizabeth Warren on, on Elizabeth Warren issue of Medicare for All, somehow either was a coward, wasn't willing to stand up and state what they thought. Somehow doing something -- I think the phrase was should be in a Republican primary. When we talk about Medicare for All, people talk about taking two years, five years, 10 years to get it done. That doesn't give any real reassurance to people out there.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

They're helping me in every way.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'm not going to make that judgment.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The good news is the bad news. Everybody knows me. Everybody has an opinion. So it's harder to mislabel me or to say something about me that's not true. I have weaknesses. It's easier to talk about the weaknesses, but the generic point is that people know who I am.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I think he'll be fine. I think he'll be just fine.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The attitude is elitist that people can't make up their own mind, joe Biden like Joe Biden health insurance.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

When you're the recipient of someone's understanding and empathy, you understand how it can help and it's just impossible, although sometimes it's hard to not share it with others. When people come up to me often, as you've observed, is they come up and they'll walk up to me and all of a sudden a man or woman will just grab me and hug me and say,' I just lost my son, lost my daughter, tell me, am I going to be OK, am I going to be OK ?' purpose. And a purpose is best utilized if it relates to something that related to what the person you lost cared about.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I called 12 Senate Republicans and said,' What are you doing ?' i said,' You realize what you're doing to the Constitution ?' They said,' We know, Joe, but here's the deal : Joe, I'm in a state where if in fact the Koch brothers drop in $ 10, $ 12 million, I will lose the primary.'.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The House's going to change their view. Let The House see where the facts lead us.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think Michael Bloomberg should jump in the race. Michael Bloomberg's Michael Bloomberg. Michael Bloomberg's done a lot of good. And let's see what happens, every single poll that's run I beat Joe Biden like a drum as I said. And states in South Carolina and states in the Midwest. And so look, if Joe Biden wants to run Joe Biden should just get in and run.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The strong women in my life are angry -- they get angry about things. That has nothing to do with it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Now the people that are running against me tell me I'm naïve. One said I should be in the Republican primary, God love Elizabeth Warren, that's not the way you get things done, man. You don't go in and tell people that they disagree there's something fundamentally wrong with them.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

If you don't agree with Elizabeth Warren, you must somehow be not a Democrat. You must somehow be corrupt. You must somehow not be as smart as Elizabeth Warren is, it's just something we don't do in our party. It's not who we are.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's just an elitist attitude that it's either my way or the highway.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Her plan would create a new tax on employers of almost $9 trillion that would come out of workers' pockets, a new financial transaction tax that would impact investments held by middle class Americans, and a new capital gains tax that would affect far more people than she stated tonight.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

You give hate a little oxygen and it comes out from under the rocks, well, he's breathed oxygen into hate.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

That process will be the toughest to develop. We need to think that part through but I believe even in today's environment we can figure it out.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Technology

He's a hell of a patriot.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, i do not believe we have a right to tell women that they can't control their body. It's a decision between them and their doctor.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I am not going to discuss that. That is just my personal life.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This is an understandable response from Democrats who desperately don't want to see( Trump) reelected president, my guess is we would have done the same thing for any Democrats that are attacked in the primary.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's not just his words that have given rise to hate, his actions - his actions have failed the African American community, and all communities.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Remember we got started later than anybody at all in this campaign, number one. Number two, we did not start off by dropping $ 10 million from a Senate campaign, wherever that money was raised from into a race, we're doing fine, our fundraising is building. We've raised a lot of money online, and we've raised money offline as well, so we feel confident we're going to be ready.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I know where I stand with my dad, i know where I stand with my family.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

It's fascinating that the person who has a plan for everything has no plan on the single most consequential issue in this election in the minds of the American people across the board, tell us how you're going to do what you say you're going to do.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Even Richard Nixon released his tax return, mr. President, release your tax returns, or shut up.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

She's going to have to tell the truth, or the question will be raised about whether or not she's going to be candid and honest with the American people.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Tell us how you're going to do what you say you're going to do.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

The last thing the Democrats should be doing is playing Trump's game and trying to con the American people to think this is easy. There's nothing easy about it.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I have never heard anyone say with any serious background in foreign policy, 'Pull all troops out of the Middle East', if she meant pulling our fleet out of the eastern Mediterranean or the Persian Gulf, I think it will be an absolute disaster for American security and American foreign policy ... I hope she didn't mean in a literal sense.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

It has been the most shameful thing that any president has done in modern history in terms of foreign policy.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Our commanders across the board, former and present, are ashamed of what's happening here.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached, he's shooting holes in the Constitution and we cannot let him get away with it.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

One of the problems I'm finding, I've got to be more aggressive.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

With his words and his actions, President Trump has indicted himself. By obstructing justice, refusing to reply with a congressional inquiry, he's already convicted himself, in full view of the world and the American people, Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

[T]o Trump and those who facilitate his abuses of power, and all the special interests funding his attacks against me: Please know that Im not going anywhere, you wont destroy me, and you wont destroy my family. And come November 2020, I intend to beat you like a drum.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

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– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We've had well over half a million contributions, we haven't raised what a lot of people have - we got started way later than everybody else - but we've raised, this last quarter, $15 million, in the middle of summer.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Imagine if the same law existed for drug companies that existed for gun companies.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Let me make something clear to Trump and his hatchet men and the special interests funding his attacks against me, i'm not going anywhere. You're not going to destroy me. And you're not going to destroy my family. I don't care how much money you spend or how dirty the attacks get.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I'm not going anywhere. You're not going to destroy me. And you're not going to destroy my family. I don't care how much money you spend or how dirty the attacks get.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I may very well talk to her about that, yeah, there's word and rumor that the FBI and others were involved, CIA were involved, with United Kingdom, having to do with the Russian hoax. And I may very well talk to her about that, yes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The reason I am being attacked is that most polls show me beating him by 10 to 15 points, i am not at all surprised I have become the object of his affection and attention.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

This isn't about me, it's a tactic that's used by this president to try to hijack an election so we do not focus on the issues that matter in our lives.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

President Donald Trump'd like to get foreign help to win elections.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't want to get into specific witnesses at this point but Rudy Giuliani is clearly at the center of a lot of this. The spadework for this phone call may very well have been done by Rudy Giuliani. It appears to me from reading the transcript that the Ukraine President had a pretty good idea of what might happen on this call. And so, why that's the case and how that was communicated to him, we need to find out, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Rudy Giuliani is a part that have answer.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Denying Congress the information, which it is constitutionally entitled to, and obstructing its efforts to investigate actions is not the conduct of an American president. It's an abuse of power, donald Trump will leave Congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment. That would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of Donald Trump own making.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Donald Trump will leave Congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment. That would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of Donald Trump own making.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Denying Congress the information, which it is constitutionally entitled to, and obstructing its efforts to investigate actions is not the conduct of an American president. It's an abuse of power, president Donald Trump will leave Congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment. That would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of President Donald Trump own making.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

President Donald Trump will leave Congress, in my view, no choice but to initiate impeachment. That would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of President Donald Trump own making.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

If he continues to obstruct Congress and flout the law, Donald Trump will leave Congress in my view with no choice but to initiate impeachment proceedings, that would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of his own making.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

That would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of his own making.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

If he continues to obstruct Congress and flout the law, Donald Trump will leave Congress in my view with no choice but to initiate impeachment proceedings.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Every single outlet that's looked at this said there's nothing there there, and me, nor anyone in my family did anything inappropriate. And every major outlet has acknowledged that. I just find it very Trump-like.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Trump is using this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum and is using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Above all else we must defeat Donald Trump period and stop his abuse of power.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Opinion

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

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

I said, Youre kidding me.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

What I saw last night was fewer personal attacks.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year ago Opinion

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

I'm not using those examples anymore.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Follow me on the campaign trail.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago U.S.

We're going to bring him home.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago Top News

This is three years later.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 year 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 year ago U.S.

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 year 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 year ago Politics

Every major initiative needs to be reformed.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 year 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 year ago U.S.

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

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 year ago U.S.

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 1 year 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 1 year ago U.S.

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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago U.S.

I give people the option.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

Now, things are changing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

There is a conceptual difference between desegregation and integration.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

How are you guys? Happy 4th of July.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

They let you wear that here?

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

I never, never, never have opposed voluntary busing.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year ago U.S.

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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

I did not oppose busing in America.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I'm still holding on to that torch.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

I'm not joking, these are real jobs.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago U.S.

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year ago Opinion

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Latest Headlines

This guy is going to go after me and family.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

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

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year ago Top News

Folks, this is not who we are.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 2 years 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 2 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years ago U.S.

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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago U.S.

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 2 years ago U.S.

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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago Politics

We are in a battle for America's soul.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago U.S.

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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 3 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

College campuses are communities.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago Politics

But do I regret not being president? Yes.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 4 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 4 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 4 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 4 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 4 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Top News

I've concluded it has closed.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 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 5 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Politics

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

I think we'll be all right.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters 5 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 5 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 5 years ago Top News

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

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

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 years ago Politics

Neil, I miss you man. I miss you.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 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 6 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 6 years ago Latest Headlines

It's an uncommon fraternity.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN 6 years ago U.S.

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 6 years ago Politics

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