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American lawyer and politician, Birth: 20-11-1942 Joe Biden Quotes
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You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
Joe Biden

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Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.
Joe Biden

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I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.
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No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights
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A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.
Joe Biden

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Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
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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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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
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If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
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America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.
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11.
Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.
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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.
Joe Biden

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You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.
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If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.
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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
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Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.
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Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.
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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 see much of a distinction beyond that.
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Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward.
Joe Biden

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When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.
Joe Biden

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Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time
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I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.
Joe Biden

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There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.
Joe Biden

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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden

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Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.
Joe Biden

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I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.
Joe Biden

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I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.
Joe Biden

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The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.
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Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.
Joe Biden

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Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.
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I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black
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I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.
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I am a Catholic. I can't say that without pointing out that I oppose abortion with all my heart and soul. Bill Clinton wanted them safe and rare. Barack Obama is heartsick that so many people he knows have had abortions. But we're all pro-choice and believe in reproductive freedom and oppose the Republicans' War on Women.
Joe Biden

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Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.
Joe Biden

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In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.
Joe Biden

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Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
Joe Biden

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Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
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The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.
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We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.
Joe Biden

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You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
Joe Biden

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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Joe Biden

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I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.
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My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!
Joe Biden

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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
Joe Biden

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When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.
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I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.
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There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
Joe Biden