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.

-Joe Biden

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The Average Voter Out

Joe Biden

Topic

Moving

Average

Iraq

More From Joe Biden

Don't Tell Me What You Value. Show Me Your Budget And I'll Tell You What You Value.

Money

Powerful

Saving

Everyone Plagiarizes Me. Ever Since I Wrote My Autobiography.

Autobiography

I Believe At Its Core We Have A Constitution, As Our Supreme Court's First Great Justice, Marshall, Said In 1819, And I Quote, "intended To Endure For The Ages To Come And Consequently To Be Adapted To The Various Crises Of Human Affairs."

Believe

Justice

Age

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.

Grieving

Justice

Care

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.

Iowa

African American

Looks

The Russians Appear To Be - Appear To Be In Conjunction With The Turks, As Well As The Iranians, Appear To Be At A Point Where They Are Realizing For Their Interests As Well, Assad Being In Power Indefinitely Is Not In Their Interests.

Realizing

Assad

Conjunctions

The Spirit Of Thanksgiving Rests In Our Recognizing The Blessings In Our Lives, And As We All Take Stock, I Hope You Will Join Me In Expressing Sincerest Thanks To Our Soldiers Serving In Harm's Way In Iraq, Afghanistan, And Around The World. May God Bless You On This Day Of Thanks, And May God Protect Our Troops.

Blessing

Iraq

Soldier

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.

Stupid

Nice

Mean

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.

Country

Powerful

Military

Somalis Have Made My City Of Wilmington, Delaware, [ Their Home ] On A Smaller Scale. There Is A Large, Very Identifiable Somali Community.

Home

Cities

Community

There's About 100 Different Cancers In A Cancer Cell. And So What We're Finding Out Is, They're Finding Out Ways To Deal With One Or Two Of The Cancers There, With Certain Medicines. But They Don't Know Why, If You Have That Cancer And I Have That Cancer, And I Get The Therapy And You Get It, I Don't Live And You Live. That - They Don't Know Why.

Cancer

Medicine

Cells

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.

Home

Opportunity

Blood

I Always Kid The President In Different Circumstances. Mr. President, A Country's Never Going To Be More Optimistic Than The President.

Country

Kids

Optimistic

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.

Girl

Powerful

Men

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

Life

Art

Knocked Down

If You Need More Than 10 Rounds To Hunt, And Some Argue They Hunt With That Many Rounds, You Shouldn't Be Hunting. If You Can't Get The Deer In 3 Shots, You Shouldn't Be Hunting. You Are An Embarrassment.

Hunting

Archery

Needs

For Too Long In This Society, We Have Celebrated Unrestrained Individualism Over Common Community.

Long

Community

Common

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

Responsibility

Community

Corporations

Based On My Own Experiences, I Made Sure, And I'm Proud Of This, That The Common Core Curriculum Is Hard On Plagiarizers.

I Did Not Know At The Time, But What I Did At That Swimming Pool [on The East Side Of Wilmington] Paved The Way For Barack Obama.

Swimming

Way

Sides

Hilary Clinton Might Have Been A Better Pick Than Me.

Might

Clinton

Has Beens

It Is My View That We Cannot Conduct Foreign Policy At The Extremes.

Views

Foreign Policy

Policy

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.

Morning

Thinking

Feet

I Do Not Believe That We Have A Right To Tell Other People, Women, That They Can't Control Their Bodies.

Believe

People

Body

Anybody Who Pretends That How You Read The 10th And 11th Amendment Doesn't Have A Fundamental Impact On The Things We Care About Is Kidding Themselves. They're Either Uninformed Or They're Kidding Themselves.

Impact

Fundamentals

Care

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.

Jobs

Real

Years

Hillary Clinton Is As Qualified Or More Qualified Than I Am To Be Vice President Of The United States Of America. Let's Get That Straight. She's A Truly Close Personal Friend. She Is Qualified To Be President Of The United States Of America. She's Easily Qualified To Be Vice President Of The United States Of America. Quite Frankly, It Might Have Been A Better Pick Than Me. But She's First Rate.

America

President

Vices

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

People

Relation

Foreign Policy

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.

Moving

Growth

India

Would Colonel [bernie] Sanders Honeymoon In The Soviet Union?

Unions

Honeymoon

Soviet Union

Look Folks, We Know Who Built This Country And We Know Who Is Going To Rebuild It. It's You. Instead Of Vilifying You, We Should Be Thanking You. We Owe You.

Country

Looks

Should

Not That I've Always Agreed With What She Said - Far From It - But Justice Sandra Day O'connor Has Been Properly Lauded, In My View, As A Judge Who Approached Her Duties With Open-mindedness And With A Sensitivity That Affects Her Decisions Would Have On Everyday, Ordinary People.

Views

Judging

People

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

Republican

Budgets

Ifs

It's Presumptuous To Say You Know How Somebody Feels.

Feels

Know How

Knows

War Should Always Be The Absolute Last Resort.

War

Lasts

Should

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

Hurt

Telling The Truth

Hurt Me

You Can Go Back 500 Years. You Cannot Find A More Audacious Plan.

Years

Plans

Audacious

Every Republican’s Voted For It. Look At What They Value And Look At Their Budget And What They’re Proposing. Romney Wants To Let The – He Said In The First 100 Days He’s Going To Let The Big Banks Once Again Write Their Own Rules – Unchain Wall Street. They’re Gonna Put You All Back In Chains.

Wall

Writing

Looks

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.

America

Years

Guy

This Republican Kevin Mccarthy Makes Hillary [clinton] The Victim.

Kevin

Republican

Victim

Arafat's Departure Has Created An Awesome Opportunity.

Opportunity

Departure

Arafat

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

Six Months

World

Tests

Well, I'm Telling Them Two Things. One Is That, Look, This Is Going To Be Something When The American People Realize - Once It's Passed - That, A, It Does Take Care Of Preexisting Conditions; B, You're Insurance Rates Aren't Going To Skyrocket; C, The Insurance Companies Aren't Going To Be Running The Show Like They Were Before; D, You're Going To Be In A Position Where You Can Keep Your Insurance That You Have. That Once The American Public Realizes That, You're Going To Get A Reward For This. They're Going To Be Rewarded.

Running

Two

People

I'm Not Running Like Colonel [bernie] Sanders. All Reputations Matter.

Running

Matter

Reputation

If Your Kitchen Table Is Like Mine, You Sit There At Night Before You Put The Kids To Bed And You Talk About What You Need. You Talk About How Much You Are Worried About Being Able To Pay The Bills. Ladies And Gentlemen, That Is Not A Worry John Mccain Has To Worry About. It's A Pretty Hard Experience. He'll Have To Figure Out Which Of The Seven Kitchen Tables To Sit At.

Kids

Night

Worry

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.

Children

Believe

Rights

Vote For War Allowed War Only After All Else Failed.

War

Vote

One Role Of Government Is To Go Where Venture Capital Won't.

Government

Roles

Venture

And I Think Hillary Clinton Is Able To Be Elected President Of The United States.

Thinking

President

United States

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!

Alive

Want

Littles

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.

Couple

Party

Firsts

It(boston Bombings) Was Worth It To Hear You(survivor Speakers) Speak.

Boston

Survivor

Speak

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.

War

Giving

Justice

Stand Up, Chuck, Let Them See You.

Crazy

Chuck

I've Never Been Called A Man Of Few Words.

Men

Few Words

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.

Rights

Trials

Bills

Sure, We Have An Obstacle, Isis. They Can Do Great Damage. They Can Do Great Damage And They Scare The Living Hell Out Of Everybody With Good Reason. But They Are, Instead Of Dealing With Nation-states That Are Arranged Against Us, We're To Deal With Non-state Actors That Can Do Damage To Us. But This Is Within Our Control. We Are Beginning To Make Genuine Progress As To How We Isolate Them, How We Take Them Out. We're In A Situation - I Mean, I Just Could Go On. But I Am - The Only Generic Criticism I Had Is We're Not Talking About The Possibilities.

Mean

Isis

Talking

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

Attitude

America

Domestic Violence

I Was Angry. I Was Kind Of Looking For A Fight. I Didn't Want To Talk To You Guys In The Press, Because Initially, Understandably, All They Wanted To Talk To Me About Was, You Know, What Does It Feel Like?

Fighting

Guy

Doe

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.

Lying

Views

Office

I Always Wonder When It Was That I Was Embraced.

Wonder

To Start To Look More Focused On The Good That's Been Done And Can Be Done.

Looks

Done

Focused

There's One Advantage In Having Been Around As Long As I Have. Everybody In The Senate Knows Me, And - I'm Going To Say Something Presumptuous, To Repeat Myself - I Think Most Respect Me.

Thinking

Long

Respect Me

I Support Immediate Financial Assistance To The Newly Elected Palestinian President. Now, I Don't Know What Those Numbers Will Be, And I Don't Know How It's Going To Be Framed.

Hype

Numbers

Support

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.

Impact

Environmental

Gasoline

Almost Every Great Innovation Was [created] By Government.

Government

Innovation

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.

Election

Authority

Polls

You Cannot Go To A 7-eleven Or A Dunkin' Donuts Unless You Have A Slight Indian Accent.

Racism

Racist

Dunkin Donuts

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.

Grieving

President

Campaigns

We Spent $100 Billion On Education, Saving The Education System 300,000 Teachers Who Were Laid Off Because Of The Recession. We Also Put Tens Of Thousands Of Lower Income Kids In College Through Pell Grants Which Has Fundamentally All Their Opportunity. We Did The Same Thing With Regard To What We Did On Transportation. So We Weren't Just Trying To - We Knew We Had To Do Something Big To Keep Us From Going Over The Cliff Into A Depression And Pull Us Out Of Hole.

Teacher

Kids

Opportunity

If We Wait For The Danger To Become Clear, It Could Be Too Late.

Wmd

Waiting

Too Late

This Administration [of Barack Obama] Favors A Pluralistic World And Respects Cultural Differences, So It's Wrong For The West And American Elitists To Judge How Women Are Treated Under Sharia. I'm Going Too Long On All This, But I Choke Up On The President's Legacy Of Reaching Out To The Muslim World. It's An Emotional Thing.

Emotional

Differences

Judging

I Didn't Deserve To Be President Just Based On The Richter Scale Of 'was I Tough Enough And Did I Understand The Process?'

President

Tough

Enough

Life Is A Matter Of Really Tough Choices.

Choices

Matter

Tough

You Know We're Going To Control The Insurance Companies.

Insurance Companies

Company

Knows

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.

Independent

Thinking

America

To Overcome This Obstacle, And To Discover And Dismantle Saddam Hussein's Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Unmovic And The Iaea Must Interview Relevant Persons Securely And With Their Families Protected, Even If They Protest Publicly Against This Treatment. Hans Blix May Dislike Running ''a Defection Agency,' But That Could Be The Only Way To Obtain Truthful Information About Saddam's Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Running

Wmd

Agency

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.

Writing

Violence

Victim

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.

Party

Successful

Winning

When You Question A Man's Motives, When You Say They Are Acting Out Of Greed, They Are In The Pocket Of An Interest Group, Et Cetera. It's Awful Hard To Reach Consensus. It's Awful Hard To Reach Across The Table And Shake Hands. No Matter How Bitterly You Disagree, Though, It Is Always Possible If You Question Judgment And Not Motive.

Men

Hands

Greed

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.

Thinking

Usa

Hezbollah

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

Focus

Forget

Ability

Partitioning Iraq Is Inevitable, As Shown By History.

Iraq

Inevitable

There Is No Question That I Would Be The Better President. But As For The Campaign, Are Americans Ready For A General Election In Which Both Major Party Candidates Are Add? Quite Frankly, It Could Provide An Opening For A Third Party Candidate, Maybe Someone Backed By The Evil Koch Brothers.

Brother

Party

Evil

Don't Listen To The Cynics. They Were Wrong About My Generation And They Were Wrong About Yours.

Generations

My Generation

Judge [samuel Alito], There's A Genuine Struggle Going On Well Beyond You, Well Beyond The Congress, In America About How To Read The Constitution.

Struggle

America

Judging

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.

Stories

Energy

Reason

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.

Opportunity

President

Want

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.

War

Stupid

Mean

Should We Have Border Security There? Yes. But The Idea Of The United States Erecting A Wall For The World To See Makes A Lie Of Everything We Say About Ourselves. It's A Little Bit Like Why The President [barack Obama] And I Feel So Strongly About Closing Guantanamo. It Is Inconsistent With Who We Are.

Wall

Lying

Ideas

Somalis Have Made My City Of Wilmington, Delaware, [their Home] On A Smaller Scale. There Is A Large, Very Identifiable Somali Community, I Might Add If You Ever Come To The Train Station With Me You'll Notice I Have Great Relationships With Them Because There's An Awful Lot Driving Cabs And Are Friends Of Mine. For Real. I'm Not Being Solicitous. I'm Being Serious.

Real

Home

Cities

Some Studies Have Shown Close To 70 Percent Of Men Who Are In Prison Have One Of Two Things In Common: One, They Can't Read. And Two, They Witnessed Violence Or Were Victims Of Violence As A Child. You Would Think That If You Had Seen Your Mother Get Beaten When You Were 10 Years Old, You'd Never Raise Your Hand To A Woman. Not True. The Prospect That You Will Increases Dramatically If You Witness Violence. So It's So Much Bigger Than Just About Women. It's About Our Society. It's About Our Culture. It's About Who The Hell We Are.

Mother

Children

Men

I Was In Sit-ins To Desegregate Restaurants And Movie Houses In The '60s.

House

Restaurants

I've Been A Strong Supporter Of Public Financing My Whole Career. I'm The First Guy To Introduce A Public Financing Bill To The United States Senate In 1973.

Strong

Careers

Guy

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.

Jobs

Stupid

Class

Well, I Was 29 Years Old When I Came To The United States Senate, And I Have Learned A Lot.

Years

United States

I Have Learned

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.

Integrity

Believe

Games

The Reason I'm A Democrat Is Because The Essence Of The Democratic Party Is An Abhorrence For The Abuse Of Power On The One Hand, And The Notion That Everyone's Entitled To Be Treated With Dignity. That Message Never Got Through.

Party

Hands

Essence

It Is No Secret That I Believe My Son, Attorney General Beau Biden, Would Make A Great United States Senator - Just As I Believe He Has Been A Great Attorney General. But Beau Has Made It Clear From The Moment He Entered Public Life, That Any Office He Sought, He Would Earn On His Own.

Believe

Son

Office

We Don't Have To Reinvent The Wheel, Just Go Back To What It Was In Terms Of How Corporations Acted In Terms Of Their Collective Responsibility Just 20 Years Ago.

Responsibility

Years

Corporations

The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons Is The Greatest Threat Facing The Country-and I Would Argue Facing Humanity.

Country

Humanity

Nuclear

I Got Tested For Aids. I Know Barack Got Tested For Aids. There's No Shame In Being Tested For Aids.

Important

Shame

Aids

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

Way

Persons

Aircraft

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

Decision

Made

She [justice Sandra Day O'connor], Unlike, Judge Bork, Did Not Think That Being On The Court Would Be An "intellectual Feast," To Quote Judge [robert Heron] Bork.

Thinking

Judging

Justice

I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

College

Firsts

My Family

Drug Prices Are A Problem. Access Is A Problem.

Drug

Problem

Access

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

Etc

Saudis

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society, For Nothing Suffocates The Promise Of America More Than Unbounded Cynicism And Indifference.

Fire

America

Promise

Well, I Thought The Deal Was, When You Went To Work For The Government You Weren't Supposed To Make Money!

Government

Making Money

Deals

Look, Freedom Is An Overwhelming American Notion. The Idea That We Want To See The World, The Peoples Of The World Free Is Something That All Of Us Subscribe To.

Ideas

Looks

World

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.

Decision

Matter

Today

Transgender Discrimination Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time

Rights

Issues

Discrimination

President Vladimir Putin Continues To Call For New Peace Plans As His Troops Roll Through The Ukrainian Countryside And He Absolutely Ignores Every Agreement That His Country Has Signed In The Past And He Has Signed Recently, We, The United States, And Europe As A Whole, Have To Stand With Ukraine At This Moment. Ukraine Needs Our Financial Assistance And Support As It Pursues Reforms And Even In The Face, In The Face Of This Military Onslaught.

Country

Peace

Military

It's Gonna Be One Of The Great Achievements Of This Administration.

Achievement

Administration

Great Achievement

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

Goliath

Court

Equal

I Don`t Know What Donal Trump Motive Is But I Know What He`s Preaching Is A Very, Very Dangerous Brew For America. Is This Just A Guy Doing Celebrity Apprentice For Himself? Is This Just A Guy Who`s An Entertainer? It May Have Started There But I Now Think He Wants To Be President. Also, I Don`t Think There`s Much Chance Of That.

Thinking

America

Guy

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

Said

Benghazi

Agree

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.

Gun

Fire

Doors

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.

Wall

Pigs

Allies

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.

Brother

Uncles

Growing Up

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

Responsibility

Talking

People

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.

Summer

Moving

Optimistic

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.

Cutting

Class

Dollars

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Fire

Our Society

Idealism And Realism

I Get Overwhelming Support In The African-american Community.

Support

Community

African American

I Get A Lot Of Credit I Don't Deserve.

Credit

Deserve

I Acknowledge These Are Very Tough Jobs A Judge Has In Determining Whether Or Not There Is An Openness That Is Required Under The Constitution.

Jobs

Judging

Tough

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

Character

Differences

Wealth

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.

Care

Violence

Structure

You Get A Lawyer Whether You're In A Military Tribunal Or Whether You're In A Federal Court, Number One. The Attorney General Decided That The Court With The Biggest - With The Greatest Venue, With The Best Jurisdiction Was The New York Court. That Was The Right Decision To Make.

New York

Military

Numbers

The President Has A Big Stick.

President

Sticks

Election

This Is A Big F...ing Deal!

Dumb

Bigs

Dumb Liberal

I Think We Just Have To Remember Who The Heck We Are And Speak To Who We Are And What We Believe.

Believe

Thinking

Who We Are

You're Looking At A Middle-class Guy. I Am Who I Am.

Who I Am

Class

Guy

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

Government

Ideas

Vision

You Can't Go To Insurance Companies And Say, You Know What, We're Not Going To Change Anything Having To Do With The Pool From Which You - You Draw Your People. We're Not Going To Do Anything. But Guess What, You Can No Longer Allow For Pre-existing Conditions To Disqualify Somebody. And They Go, Oh. Ok. How Do I Pay For That?

People

Pay

Pool

We Misread The Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] And Have Been Misreading It For The Past Three Decades.

Past

Fifth Amendment

Three

They're Just Beginning To Change - Drug Companies.

Drug

Company

Drug Companies

And Bobby [jindal] And I Are Both Catholics.

Catholic

How I Learned To Love The New World Order.

World Government

Order

Nwo

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

Dollars

Biden

Want

I Remember George Mitchell - I Was Doing The Clarence Thomas Hearing, And There Were 48 Senators Declared They Were Not Prepared To Vote For Him At The Front End. We Could Have Filibustered That And Stopped It. George And I - George Was The Leader At The Time - Took The Heat From Every Liberal Group Saying, "no, No, That's Not The Way The System Is Supposed To Work, Since The Constitution - The President Shall Propose And The Constitution Shall Dispose, We're Going To Let Them Hear This."

Leader

President

Way

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

Kids

Looks

Realizing

It Is Unfortunate We Were Put In The Position Where The Republicans Made It Clear They Were Ready To Let Everything Fall Unless They Got These Tax Cuts.

Fall

Cutting

Republican

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.

America

People

Leader

Politics Is A Damn Expensive Business. I Had One Hell Of A Time Trying To Raise Money As A Candidate. I Had To Put A Second Mortgage On Our House To Get That Campaign Started, And I Ended Up Spending Over $300,000 To Get Elected. I Believe That Public Financing Of Federal Election Campaigns Is The Only Thing That Will Insure Good Candidates And Save The Two-party System. It Is The Most Degrading Thing In The World To Go Out With Your Hat In Your Hand And Beg For Money, But That's What You Have To Do If You Haven't Got Your Own Resources.

Party

Believe

Hands

The Caliphate Will Have Been Dismantled. It Will Still Be A Problem, But That Has Been Our Focus Because That Is The Greatest Existential Threat To U.s. Interests.

Focus

Problem

Existential

The Worst Thing We Can Do As A Nation Is Taking The Easy Way Out. If You Start Opening Up Offshore Drilling, Then You Are Buying Time And You Are Not Addressing The Fundamental Problem With Fossil Fuels.

Opening Up

Fossils

Fundamentals

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.

Thinking

People

Judging

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

Stupid

Years

President

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

Mean

President

Vices

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.

Class

Choices

Together

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.

Military

Years

America

President Clinton Bankrupted Chrysler So That Italians Could Buy It To Ship Jobs Overseas To China.

Jobs

President

Ships

My Dad Always Said, 'champ, The Measure Of A Man Is Not How Often He Is Knocked Down, But How Quickly He Gets Up.'

Dad

Men

Get Up

I May Be Irish, But I'm Not Stupid.

Stupid

May

Not Stupid

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

Smart

Intelligence

Being Smart

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

Father

Constitution

Talk To Me

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.

College

Law

Presidential

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.

War

White

House

A Man I'm Proud To Call My Friend. A Man Who Will Be The Next President Of The United States — Barack America!

Men

America

President

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!

Mother

Father

President

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.

Agency

President

Etcetera

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

Dry

Senators

Left

Everyone Thinks Because We Love Cars And Our Dad Was In The Business, We Love The Mechanical End Of Cars.

Dad

Thinking

Car

Thus, In Setting An American Agenda For A New World Order, We Must Begin With A Profound Alteration In Traditional Thought.

Order

Profound

Historical

As You Probably Know, Some American Politicians And American Journalists Refer To Washington, Dc As The "capital Of The Free World." But It Seems To Me That Brussels, Which Boasts 1,000 Years Of History And Which Serves As The Capital Of Belgium, The Home Of The European Union, And The Headquarters For Nato, This City Has Its Own Legitimate Claim To That Title.

Home

Years

Cities

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.

Cancer

Vaccines

Cells

Apologized For Saying Barack Obama Was Clean And Articulate.

Clean

Barack

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.

Men

Rights

Liberty

Guess What, The Cheerleaders In College Are The Best Athletes In College. You Think, I'm Joking, They're Almost All Gymnasts, The Stuff They Do On Hard Wood, It Blows My Mind.

Athlete

Blow

College

I Think It Is Manmade. I Think It's Clearly Manmade. If You Don't Understand What The Cause Is, It's Virtually Impossible To Come Up With A Solution. We Know What The Cause Is. The Cause Is Manmade. That's The Cause. That's Why The Polar Icecap Is Melting.

Thinking

Environmental

Melting

This [judge Samuel Alito] May Be One Of The Most Significant Or Consequential Nominations That The Senate Will Vote On Since I've Been Here In The Last Three Decades.

Judging

Nominations

Lasts

Wealthy People Are Just As Patriotic As Poor People, I Honest To God Believe That.

Believe

Patriotic

People

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

Government

Data

Want

Al Gore Invented The Internet.

Als

Internet

Gore

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

Mean

Abusive Relationship

Prison

There's Good Reason To Be Excited. You Have The First Woman Running Who Is Qualified, And A Very Attractive African-american Who Has Demonstrated Crossover Appeal. I Got Involved In Politics 40 Years Ago During The Civil Rights Movement, So Yes, It's An Exciting Thing.

Running

Rights

Years

I Once Said, "you Cannot Go To A 7-eleven Or A Dunkin' Donuts Unless You Have A Slight Indian Accent." When Bobby Jindal Entered The Republican Campaign, My Comment Should Have Been Covered Again, More Prominently. I Mean, Jindal Is Not Native American, He's A Real Indian.

Real

Mean

Native American

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.

Daughter

Prayer

Husband

It's Easy Being Vice President - You Don't Have To Do Anything.

President

Vices

Easy

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

Men

Good Man

Care

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

Iraq

Goes On

These Days

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.

Climbing

Ideas

Hiking

Resist The Temptation To Ascribe Motive, Because You Really Don't Know - And It Gets In The Way Of Being Able To Reach A Consensus On Things That Matter To You And To Many Other People.

People

Temptation

Matter

We Were Never Motorheads. We Knew Fast Cars. We Knew How To Siphon Gas - Me - Charge The Battery When It Was Down. But Never Hot-wired A Car.

Car

Hot

Batteries

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.

Opportunity

Lgbt Community

Example

Some Of My Best Friends Are Jewish Contributors To The Democratic Party.

Party

My Best Friend

Democratic

All You Need Is A Double Barrel

Needs

Barrels

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.

Girl

Daughter

Giving

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.

Class

America

Together

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.

Kids

People

Judging

The Idea That You Know More Than The Intelligence Community Knows, It's A Little Like Saying, I Know More About Physics Than My Professor.

Ideas

Community

Littles

I’ve Been Calling For More Troops For Over Two Years, Along With John Mccain And Others Subsequent To My Saying That.

Years

Two

Troops

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

Growing Up

President

Adults

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.

Father

Men

Expectations

I Believe The American People Have A Genuine And Justifiable Fear Of Government Intrusion In What They Instinctively Know Is Going To Be An Ever More Intrusive World.

Believe

Government

People

America Is The Promised Land, Because Each Generation Bequeathed To Its Children A Promise, A Promise That They Might Not Come To Enjoy But Which They Fully Expected Their Offspring To Fulfill. So The Words 'all Men Are Created Equal' Took A Life Of Its Own, Ultimately Destined To End Slavery And Enfranchise Women. And The Words 'equal Protection' And 'due Process' Inevitably Led To The End Of The Words 'separate But Equal,' Ensuring That The Walls Of Segregation Would Crumble, Whether At The Lunch Counter Or At The Voting Booth.

Children

Wall

Men

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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