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What's Four Years In Our Long American History? Remember When I Asked That Wheelchair-bound Politician To "stand Up." It Turns Me Off When People Say Donald Trump Is Authentic. Just Because He Says "mexican Rapists." What About Me? I Am The Real Deal.

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

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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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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.

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.

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The Iraqis Have Become Invested In Their Nationhood.

I Wish I Had Been More Mature. I Wish I Had Handled The Immediate Aftermath Of The Accident Involving My Family Better.

Social Security's Not The Hard One To Solve. Medicare, That Is The Gorilla In The Room, And You've Got To Put All Of It On The Table.

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.

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?

People Are Suspect Because They Believe Your Ideology Blinds You To Equal Application Of The Law, And The Facts.

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

I'm Confident Because Of The - What We [usa Government] Call The Strategic Agreement We're Now Working On With Them, We Will Be Deeply Involved Within Every Aspect Of Their Government From Helping Them Improve Their Agriculture, To Train Air Traffic Controllers, To Train Pilots For The F-16s They're Buying. So We'll Have A Deep Relationship.

People Took The Word "clean" Out Of Context. My Mother Had An Expression: "clean As A Whistle, Sharp As A Tack." I Inherited Her Originality.

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.

Well, We're [usa] Not Looking For An Ally; What We're Looking For Is A Stable, Democratic Government That Is Not Beholden To Anyone In The Region And Is Able To Be Secure Within Its Own Borders And Have Its Own 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.

What's Four Years In Our Long American History? Remember When I Asked That Wheelchair-bound Politician To "stand Up." It Turns Me Off When People Say Donald Trump Is Authentic. Just Because He Says "mexican Rapists." What About Me? I Am The Real Deal.

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.

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.

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

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.

I Had A Great Deal Of Trouble Focusing. My Two - I Had Three Children, And The Two That Survived - Boys - Were Very Badly Injured. I Did My Job. I Didn't Miss The Votes. I Showed Up. But I Just Could Hardly Wait To Get Home.

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.

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

I Think After Sam Nunn Left, I'm The Last Guy In The Senate Who Got A Majority White Male Vote In Their State.

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

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

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

I Should Start With An Apology To Rudy Giuliani. I Said Every Sentence Rudy Utters Has A Noun, A Verb, And 9/11 In It. I Was Wrong. He Called Me To Tell Me After Pat Robertson's Endorsement, There's An Amen In Every Sentence He Says Too.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Believe Health Care Is A Basic Right. If Education - You're Entitled To An Education, Why Wouldn't You Be Entitled To Adequate Health Care? Period.

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.

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

How I Learned To Love The New World Order.

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In This World, Emotion Has Become Suspect - The Accepted Style Is Smooth, Antiseptic And Passionless.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The President Has A Big Stick.

This Is A Big F...ing Deal!

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.

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 Middle East Is Hopeful. There's Hope There.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Almost Every Great Innovation Was [created] By Government.

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.

Mike Dukakis? He's The Salt Of The Earth.

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