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I Don't Think Any Man Or Woman Should Run For President Unless, Number One, They Know Exactly Why They Would Want To Be President, And Two, They Can Look At Folks Out There And Say, 'i Promise You Have My Whole Heart, My Whole Soul, My Energy, And My Passion.

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Joe Biden

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I Don't Think Any Man Or Woman Should Run For President Unless, Number One, They Know Exactly Why They Would Want To Be President, And Two, They Can Look At Folks Out There And Say, 'i Promise You Have My Whole Heart, My Whole Soul, My Energy, And My Passion.

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If You Go Back And Look At The History Of Supreme Court Fights From The Very Beginning There Is A Corresponding Interest, And And The Intent Of The Interest Of The Senate With, As It Relates To The Probability That The Next Appointee Would Alter The Balance In The Court.

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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.

Us Worse Off Than Before Saddam Because Us Lost Credibility.

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I Also Acknowledge That Prejudice Runs Very Deep In Our Society. And, In The Real World, Discrimination Rears Its Ugly Head In The Shadows, Where It's Very Difficult To Root It Out.

We Also Wanted To Change The Story - Change The Approach To The 21st Century On Energy, On Education, On Transportation, On Infrastructure, Generally, And It Laid The Groundwork For That. And One Of The Reasons I'm Doing This Trip Is Not Only To Say What We Did Worked, But To Say We Should Do More Of This.

But People Turn On Their Televisions. They Turn On Their Televisions And They See What's Happening In Iraq. The American People Are Not Stupid. And The One Thing They Understand, They Understand How Incredibly Mismanaged And Bungled This War Has Been By The Civilians In This Administration. And - I Mean, You Can't Paper Over That, Any More Than You Can Paper Over Katrina.

A Gaffe In Washington Is Someone Telling The Truth, And Telling The Truth Has Never Hurt Me.

Telling The Truth

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.

Failure At Some Point In Your Life Is Inevitable, But Giving Up Is Unforgivable.

I Always Wonder When It Was That I Was Embraced.

This Nuclear Option Is Ultimately An Example Of The Arrogance Of Power.

When I Said Clean, I Meant He [barack Obama] Was Bright. Like When [donald] Trump Said About Carly [fiorina], "face" He Meant "persona."

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.

Plan B Is If Hillary [clinton] Is Indicted. Then, Even If I Missed The Deadlines For The First Couple Of Primaries, I'll Be There To Rescue The Party. All Bets Are Off.

The Reason I Talk So Much About The Middle Class Is It's The Glue That Holds America Together. It Really Is. And We Don't Speak Enough To Their Legitimate Concerns.

I Agree With Donna Brazile Who Said About Benghazi: "we Got To Preven Dis From Hapinin Agen. "

Don't Be Intimidated By Power, Wealth Or Station, Character Alone Makes All The Difference.

The Constitution Says The President Shall Nominate, Not Maybe He Could, Maybe He Can't, He Shall Nominate. Implicit In The Constitution Is That The Senate Will Act On Its Constitutional Responsibility And Give Its Advice And Consent. No One Is Required To Vote For The Nominee.

Mr. Trump's A Good Man, But He Doesn't Know Much About The Health Care System.

I Exaggerate When I’m Angry, But I’ve Never Gone Around Telling People Things That Aren’t True About Me.

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.

They're Just Beginning To Change - Drug Companies.

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.

If We Were Able To Put Every Single Solitary Cancer Cell That Has A Genomic - Had Their Genome Done In One Place, We Have The Computing Capacity To Go In And Look At What Are The Similarities And Dissimilarities That Make Them Work And Don't Work. And Every Expert Will Tell You, It Is Probably Gonna Exponentially Increase The Capacity To Be Able To Find, A, Cures, B, Vaccines, And C, Turn Some Cancers Into Chronic Diseases, Rather Than It Cost You Your Life.

Just Talk To Me As A Father ... Not What The Constitution Says. What Do You Feel?

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