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I Always Judge People Who Spend A Lot Of Time In Public Office Say They Care About Things, If The Day After They Leave, They No Longer Talk About Them, Then I Don't Think They Cared Much About Them.

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I Always Judge People

Joe Biden

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I Always Judge People Who Spend A Lot Of Time In Public Office Say They Care About Things, If The Day After They Leave, They No Longer Talk About Them, Then I Don't Think They Cared Much About Them.

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I Believe All Americans Are Born With Certain Inalienable Rights. As A Child Of God, I Believe My Rights Are Not Derived From The Constitution. My Rights Are Not Derived From Any Government. My Rights Are Not Denied By Any Majority. My Rights Are Because I Exist. They Were Given To Me And Each Of My Fellow Citizens By Our Creator, And They Represent The Essence Of Human Dignity.

Success Will Come When The Societal Attitude Changes And Not A Single Woman In America Asks Herself The Question 'what Did I Do?'.

Domestic Violence

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What's Four Years In Our Long American History? Remember When I Asked That Wheelchair-bound Politician To "stand Up." It Turns Me Off When People Say Donald Trump Is Authentic. Just Because He Says "mexican Rapists." What About Me? I Am The Real Deal.

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We Have A Bill Of Rights, We Have Trial By Jury. We Have A Notion That You Are - You're Innocent Until You're Proven Guilty. We Have All These Things.

If I Could Get Every Single Cancer Genome Sequence That Has Been Sequenced; If I Could Ever Put It In One Repository, We Have The Capacity To Do A Million Billion Calculations Per Second. We'll Be Able To Find Out More In 10 Minutes More Than It Would Take 10 Nobel Laureates 10 Years To Find Out About The Patterns Of Cancer And The Cures For Cancer.

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Partitioning Iraq Is Inevitable, As Shown By History.

You Turn On The Television, It's Like, "woah Is Me! God Almighty, We're Awful." We Are So Down And Out We Are - Name Me A Country In The World, Name Me One Leader Anywhere In The World Who Wouldn't Trade Places In A Heartbeat. We By Far, We're Going To Own The 21st Century.

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The Art Of Living Is Simply Getting Up After You've Been Knocked Down.

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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.

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Salt Of The Earth

Over The Objections, Where They Sound Like Squealing Pigs, Over The Objections Of Romney And All His Allies, We Passed Some Of The Toughest Wall Street Regulations In History, Turning Wall Street Back Into The Allocator Of Capital It Always Has Been And No Longer A Casino. And They Want To Repeal It.

My Own Father Had Always Said The Measure Of A Man Wasn't How Many Times Or How Hard He Got Knocked Down, But How Fast He Got Back Up. I Made A Pledge To Myself That I Would Get Up And Emerge From This Debacle Better For Having Gone Through It. I Would Live Up To The Expectation I Had For Myself. I Would Be The Kind Of Man I Wanted To Be.

The Most Powerful Military In The World Cannot Invade, Kill Or Capture A Network Or Destroy Every Loose Weapon On The Planet. The Best Response To This Network Of Terror Is To Build A Network Of Our Own -- A Network Of Like-minded Countries And Organizations That Pools Resources, Information, Ideas, And Power. Taking On The Radical Fundamentalists Alone Isn't Necessary, It Isn't Smart, And It Won't Succeed.

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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.

It's A Problem That We [usa] Think The Iranians Are Backing Hezbollah; The Iranians Are Backing Terrorist Activity In Many Parts Of That Region.

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.

There's No Reason The Nation Of Africa Cannot And Should Not Join The Ranks Of The World's Most Prosperous Nations In The Near Term, In The Decades Ahead. There Is Simply No Reason.

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, And General Motors Is Alive.

Osama Bin Laden

The Middle East Is Hopeful. There's Hope There.

When The Stock Market Crashed, Franklin Roosevelt Got On The Television And Didn't Just Talk About The Princes Of Greed. He Said, 'look, Here's What Happened.'

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.

I'm Joking, I'm Joking. Best Decision I Ever Made.

The Truth Of The Matter Is There Is Significant Debate Among Judicial Scholars Today As To Whether Or Not We've Gone Off On The Wrong Path With Regard To Supreme Court Decisions.

An Abusive Relationship Is Worse Than Being In Prison. I Mean Literally, Not Figuratively.

Abusive Relationship

No One Doubts That Innocent Men, Women And Children Have Been The Victims Of Chemical Weapons Attacks In Syria. And There's No Doubt Who Is Responsible For This Heinous Use Of Chemical Weapons In Syria: The Syrian Regime.

Stop Talking About How You Care About People. Show Me Something. Show Me A Policy. Show Me A Policy Where You Take Responsibility.

Al Gore Invented The Internet.

There's A Lot Of Revisionist History That Goes On These Days About Iraq.

Matter Of Fact, The Way We Got A Path, A Great Friend, Arlen Specter, I Convinced Him To Switch Parties. Not A Joke. Not A Joke. He Was The Deciding Vote.

I Still Care Deeply About So Many Thing. And So I'm Going To Be Engaged. I'm Going To Be Out There As - With A Platform To Talk About The Things That I Care About: Foreign Policy And, You Know, Violence Against Women, You Know, The Inequity In The Tax Structure.

Barack Obama Is Probably The Most Exciting Candidate That Either The Democratic Or Republican Party Has Produced At Least Since I've Been Around. He's Fresh, He's New, He's Insightful.

Obama And Biden Want To Raise Taxes By A Trillion Dollars. Guess What? Yes We Do.

We Have The Greatest Resource Universities In The World, The Only Place In The World. We Have The Most Productive Workforce In The World. We Have The Most Agile Venture Capitalists In The World. We Have A Situation Where Right Now In The United States Of America, We Are Near Energy Independent. North America Is Beginning To Be The Epicenter Of Energy. What Is It That Makes People Think That This Is Not Going To Be The American Century? I Don't Get It.

Every Single Great Idea That Has Marked The 21st Century, The 20th Century And The 19th Century Has Required Government Vision And Government Incentive.

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