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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.

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Joe Biden

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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.

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

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.

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Every Other Country Where There's Absolute Chaos Now, What Is It? They're Pluralistic Without Consensus. Look At Almost Every Single Country, From Syria, To Iraq, To Iran, Ukraine, No Matter Where It Is. I Just Think It Is Totally Counter To Our Tradition.

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

Us Worse Off Than Before Saddam Because Us Lost Credibility.

Donald Trump Is Appealing To, That Whole Expression, Everybody Who Asked Me, Why Is Trump Able To Win In Those 16 People? There's A Whole Expression. In The Land Of The Blind, The One-eyed Man Is King. I'm Not Very Good At Prognosticating But I Would Not Be Surprised If He's The Nominee.

My Recollection Is - And I'd Have To Confirm This - But I Don't Recall Paying Any Money To Go To Law School.

During The 60's, I Was, In Fact, Very Concerned About The Civil Rights Movement.

I Get Overwhelming Support In The African-american Community.

African American

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.

I Was Not An Activist.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Native American

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.

It's Why We Oppose Citizens United From That Right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I Also Said The Tea Party "acted Like Terrorists" And Called A Donut Shop Manager In Milwaukee Who Wanted Lower Taxes A "smartass." And I Said The Number One Issue Is A Three-letter Word, J-o-b-s." I'm Proud Of Who I Am.

One Of My Roles As Vice President Is To - Is To Be An Interlocutor With The Senate And The House Because Everybody Up There Knows I Respect Them And I Enjoy It. And I Have A Lot Of Good Friends On Both Sides Of The Aisle Up There.

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

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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.

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

Great Achievement

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

No One Making Less Than $250,000 Under Barack Obama's Plan Will See One Single Penny Of Their Tax Raised, Whether It's Their Capital Gains Tax, Their Income Tax, Investment Tax, Any Tax.

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.

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

Insurance Companies

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.

How I Learned To Love The New World Order.

World Government

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.

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

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.

We Need To Aggressively Take On Radical Islamic Terrorism But Not At The Expense Of Our American Values.

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.

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

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.

Theres Only Three Things [giuliani] Mentions In A Sentence—a Noun, A Verb, And 9/11

I'm Not Big On Flak Jackets And Tie-dyed Shirts. You Know, That's Not Me.

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

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

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

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

No Matter How You Cut It, This Real Debate On Personal Accounts Is About The Legitimacy Of Social Security; It's Not About The Solvency Of Social Security.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

For 70 Years There's Been A Consensus Among Scholars And The American People On A Reading To The Constitution That Protects The Right Of Privacy, The Autonomy Of Individuals, While At The Same Time Empowering The Federal Government To Protect The Less Powerful.

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.

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.

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.

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