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The Average Voter Out There Understands That The Next President Is Going To Have To Be Prepared To Immediately Step In Without Hesitation And End Our Involvement In Iraq. It's Very Difficult To Figure Out How To Move On To Broader Foreign Policy Concerns Without Fixing Iraq First.

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Joe Biden

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The Average Voter Out There Understands That The Next President Is Going To Have To Be Prepared To Immediately Step In Without Hesitation And End Our Involvement In Iraq. It's Very Difficult To Figure Out How To Move On To Broader Foreign Policy Concerns Without Fixing Iraq First.

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It's A Simple Proposition To Us: Everyone Is Entitled To Adequate Medical Health Care. If You Call That A 'redistribution Of Income' -- Well, So Be It. I Don't Call It That. I Call It Just Being Fair -- Giving The Middle Class Taxpayers An Even Break That The Wealthy Have Been Getting.

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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.

There's A False Choice Being Put Forward By Some Democrats Now. Either We Double-down On Our Progressive Values, Or We Go Out There And Talk About The Middle Class And The Working Class. I've Never Found Them Inconsistent. They Go Together.

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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.

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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The President Has A Big Stick.

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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.

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I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

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I Graduated From The University Of Delaware With A Double Major In History And Political Science.

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Raising Minimum Wage Doesn't Just Benefit The Workers Behind Me, It Creates A Proven Ripple Effect That Increases Wages All The Way Up The Scale. ... Let's Get The Facts Straight, Only 20 Percent Of People Making The Minimum Wage Are Teenagers. The Rest Are Hardworking Adults, Many Of Them With Families, And I Mean Hardworking.

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.

A Lot Of People Criticized Me For Speaking Out, Not Long Ago, About Gay Marriage. I Could Not Remain Silent Any Longer. It's The Civil Rights Of Our Day. It's The Issue Of Our Day.

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.

Here At Home, When Americans Were Standing In Long Lines To Give Blood After The Attack On The World Trade Center And The Pentagon, We Squandered An Obvious Opportunity To Make Service A Noble Cause Again, And Rekindle An American Spirit Of Community.

Grow Up, Donald Trump. Grow Up. Time To Be An Adult. You're President. You Gotta Do Something. Show Us What You Have.

If I Hear One More Republican Tell Me About Balancing The Budget, I Am Going To Strangle Them.

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.

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.

Mark My Words. It Will Not Be Six Months Before The World Tests Barack Obama Like They Did John Kennedy.

I Have Never Left Another Senator Out To Dry. Never.

Millionaires Are Just As Patriotic As Poor People. The Very Wealthy Are Just As Noble And Patriotic As The Middle Class. But Nothing Has Been Asked Of Them In This Horrendous Recession. And It's Time We Just Ask.

There's Less Than One Percent Of The Population Of Iowa That Is African American. There Is Probably Less Than Four Of Five Percent That Are Minorities. What Is In Washington? So Look, It Goes Back To What You Start Off With, What You're Dealing With.

African American

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.

The Public Has Moved Beyond Politicians. For Example, I'm Not Worried About Them Repealing Protections For The Lgbt Community, Because The Public Is Beyond That. I'm Not Worried About Them Being Able To Change The Way In Which We Have Reached Out And Provided Many More Opportunities For Women. And I - But Here's What Does Concern Me. What Concerns Me Is That They Will Make Some Judgments In The Foreign Policy Area, Without Having Thought It Through That May Cause A Lot Of Problems.

Why Do People Like America? They Say, Well, You Have The Largest Military In The World. Because You Have More People, Et Cetera. They Like America For What We Stand For. And One Of The Things, And I Feel Proud To Be, What This President's For, The Last Seven Years, Is We Have Once Again Aligned Our Basic Fundamental Beliefs And Principles With Our Conduct. And It Matters. It Matters In Terms Of Our Security. It Matters In Terms Of Our Ability To Influence The World. It Matters In Our Ability To Succeed.

If You're In A Confined Aircraft; When One Person Sneezes, It Goes All The Way Through The Aircraft.

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

Osama Bin Laden

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

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?

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.

You Know, The Eleven Million People Living In The Shadows, I Believe, They're Already American Citizens... These People Are Just Waiting, Waiting For A Chance To Contribute Fully. And By That Standard Alone Eleven Million Undocumented Aliens Are Already Americans In My View.

We Can Say, "if You Want Government Money, You Have To Make This Data Public - You Have To Share It."

I'm Prepared As A Matter Of Faith To Accept That Life Begins At The Moment Of Conception. But That Is My Judgment. For Me To Impose That Judgment On Everyone Else Who Is Equally And Maybe Even More Devout Than I Am Seems To Me Is Inappropriate In A Pluralistic Society.

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.

The Greatest Gift Is The Ability To Forget - To Forget The Bad Things And Focus On The Good.

Vote For War Allowed War Only After All Else Failed.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

The Iraqis Have Become Invested In Their Nationhood.

It Should Be Heart-breaking To Every American That We Have A Frontrunner In The Presidential Race That Suggests There Will Be A Religious Test For Anybody Who Wishes To Come To Our Shores.

In The Middle Of A Recession, Where We're Just Climbing Out Of It, Where The Economy -unemployment Is Still At 9.7 Percent, The Idea Of Raising Taxes And Reducing Spending Is A Prescription For Disaster.

I Was Not An Activist.

Partitioning Iraq Is Inevitable, As Shown By History.

You Know You're A Success When You Look At Your Kids And Realize They Turned Out Better Than You.

It's Amazing To Me That No Matter What City, What State, No Matter Where I Am, A Woman Will Come Up To Me And Say "thank You, Thank You" For Writing The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, Which Funds Services For Victims And Pushes To Put More Assailants Behind Bars.

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.

I Didn't Make A Political Speech Outside Of My State For 20 Years. And I Just Focused Almost Exclusively On My Initiatives For National Crime Legislation, Foreign Policy Issues.

As My Family And I Have Worked Through The Grieving Process, I've Said All Along ... That It May Very Well Be That That Process, By The Time We Get Through, It, Closes The Window On Mounting A Realistic Campaign For President That It Might Close.

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

I've Been Saying For The Last Nine Years, Our Power Comes As Much From - Our Respect In The World Comes As Much From The Exercise Of Our Power As It Does From The Power Of Our Principles.

Justice [sandra Day] O'connor Also Brought Balance To Our Highest Court; Most Recently, As Been Repeated Many Times, When She Cautioned About How War Doesn't Give A Blank Check.

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

I Think It Is Very Possible He [donald Trump] Could Be Nominated And Depending On How This All Plays Out, I Would Take Him Seriously In Terms Of Being Able To Win Because He's Appealing To A Very, Very - He's Appealing To Fear.

Foreign Policy Is Like Human Relations, Only People Know Less About Each Other.

My Dad Sold Automobiles As A General Manager Of A General Motors Automobile Dealership. He Was A Job Creator. Everyone Of Those Cars He Sold He Created A Job For Somebody On The Assembly Line.

Arafat's Departure Has Created An Awesome Opportunity.

There's Never Been A Day In The Last Four Years I've Been Proud To Be His Vice President. Not A Single Day.

Since When Do Corporations Not Have Responsibility To The Community? Since When To The Not Have Responsibility To Their Employees?

It Is True That The Vast Majority Of Gun Deaths In America Are Not The Consequence Of The Use Of An 'assault Weapon.' But That Begs The Question Of Whether Assault Weapons Have Any Real Utility Either In Terms Of Any Sporting Or Self Protection Needs.

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

For A President Not To Have Confidence In, Not To Be Prepared To Listen To The Myriad Of Intelligence Agencies From Defense Intelligence, To The Cia, Etcetera, Is Absolutely Mindless. It's Just Mindless.

Banning Guns Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

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.

John Mccain Is A Personal Friend, A Great Friend, And I Would Be Honored To Run With Or Against John Mccain, Because I Think The Country Would Be Better Off, Be Well Off No Matter Who.

Let's Just Be Smart This Time. I'm Looking For Smart.

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.

Think About The Decade After Iraq, Not Just The Day After.

If I Can Invent A Phrase Then This Democrat [bernie] Sanders Takes Her [hillary Clinton] Off The Hook On The Emails. Could There Still Be An Fbi Indictment? Probably Not.

Almost Every Great Innovation Was [created] By Government.

You Never Say To A President For Certain You Wouldn't Do Anything, But I Have No - Look At Me Now - I Have No Desire To Sit On The Supreme Court, None. It Would Be A Great Honor , But I Have No Desire, Any More Than George Mitchell Did.

The One Place That David Is Equal To Goliath Is In The Supreme Court.

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

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.

The Turks ... The Saudis, The Emiratis, Etc. What Were They Doing?

Remember, No One Decides Who They're Going To Vote For Based On The Vice President. I Mean That Literally.

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.

There's No Political Point Worth My Son's Life.

The Change We Need Is Fixing This Broken Economy From The Bottom Up.. Not Tax Breaks For The Wealthy And Huge Corporations That Ship U.s. Jobs Overseas. We Need To Focus On Defeating Al Qaeda And The Taliban And Restoring America's Standing In The World.. Not An Unending Commitment In Iraq.

This Is Absolutely Bizarre That We Continue To Subsidize Highways Beyond The Gasoline Tax, Airlines, And We Don't Subsidize, We Don't Want To Subsidize A National Rail System That Has Environmental Impact.

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.

I Think The Only Reason Clarence Thomas Is On The Court Is Because He Is Black

I Used To Stand In Front Of The Mirror In My Bedroom. I Shared A Bedroom - Like A Lot Of People In My Era, In My Neighborhood - With My Two Brothers And An Uncle. And I'd Stand There In Front Of The Mirror Over The Dresser And I Would Practice: Meek Young Men Grow Up In Libraries, Believing It Their Duty To Accept The Views Of Cicero, Bacon And Baba.

But All Our Differences Hardly Measure Up To The Values We All Hold In Common.

I Know What I Believe, I Know What I Want To Do, And I'm Just Comfortable Saying It, And Laying It Out There.

The Constitution Provides For One Democratic Moment, Judge, Before A Lifetime Of Judicial Independence, When The People Of The United States Are Entitled To Know As Much As We Can About The Person That We're About To Entrust With Safeguarding Our Future And The Future Of Our Kids.

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.

I'd Be Lying If I Said That I Knew I Was There. I'm Being Completely Honest. Nobody Has A Right In My View To Seek Presidents Office Unless They Are Willing To Give It 110 Percent Of Who They Are.

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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