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The Single Biggest Stimulus To The Economy Are The Unemployment Benefits We're Paying. These People Go Out And They Spend The Money. They Go Out And They Have To Get By To Everything From Paying Their Mortgage Or Buying Food Or Just Getting By. It Has A Significant Impact On Economic Growth And The Continuation Of Economic Growth.

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Joe Biden

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The Single Biggest Stimulus To The Economy Are The Unemployment Benefits We're Paying. These People Go Out And They Spend The Money. They Go Out And They Have To Get By To Everything From Paying Their Mortgage Or Buying Food Or Just Getting By. It Has A Significant Impact On Economic Growth And The Continuation Of Economic Growth.

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

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.

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

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.

Hilary Clinton Might Have Been A Better Pick Than Me.

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.

They're Just Beginning To Change - Drug Companies.

You Guys At Fox Can't Seem To Get Your Facts Straight.

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.

The Recovery Act Is Working, But It's Going To Continue To Work. It's Not Over. A Lot's Going To Happen This Summer. And Even After The Summer, There's More To Come With The Act.

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.

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.

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.

The Truth Is I Don't Regret It. It Was The Right Decision [not Run For President] For My Family, And The Right Decision For Me.

And Since Our Country's Founding, We've Tried To Keep Government's Heavy Hand Out Of Our Personal Lives, While Ensuring That We Do The Most Important Thing, Which Is To Protect Those Who Cannot Protect Themselves.

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?.

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

The American Public's A Lot More Sophisticated Than We All Give Them Credit For. And On Complicated Issues, I'm Going To Give Them Straight Answers. And If It Takes More Than Three Minutes, I'm Going To Do It.

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

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."

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.

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

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

Banning Guns Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

This Attitude Of How Society Views Women As Chattel - That's The Biggest Thing To Overcome. When I First Started A Stake In The Issue Of Relationship Abuse, I Got Really Beat Up By The Christian Right Because I Was Interfering In What Was A Personal Family Affair. It's A "family Matter." That's Why I Wish We'd Drop The Phrase "domestic Violence." It Sounds Like A Domesticated Cat. It Is The Most Vicious Of All Crimes - To Be Abused By Someone You Had A Relationship With! Because Then You Blame Yourself.

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.

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.

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

I Would Be Surprised If Donald Trump Got Elected.

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.

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

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.

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

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