Quotes by Joe Biden

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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is an American politician who is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama, and in office since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden represented Delaware as a United States Senator from 1973 until becoming Vice President in 2009.
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The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Joe Biden

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

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Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.

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But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

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You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

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I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that sta...

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You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

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I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

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You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

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When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

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Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

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We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.

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The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

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The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

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Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive ...

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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

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Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

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

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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full...

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Author Bio

  • NameJoe Biden
  • Description47th Vice President of the United States
  • AliasesJoseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
  • BornNovember 20, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer