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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born 20 November 1942) is an American politician serving as the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017. He represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
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“(W)hen it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I'm about as liberal as your grandmother. I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don't think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body. I support a limited amnesty, and I don't think marijuana should be legalized.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Kitty Kelley (1974), "Death and the All-American Boy", Washingtonian month: June
“I don't want anybody to give me credit for sharing any point of view George Wallace has. There are some people who oppose busing because they are racist, but the vast majority of the American people — the people of Delaware — oppose it for the same reason that the architect of the concept now opposes it. Professor Coleman, an educator, first suggested the possible benefits of busing in a 1966 report. Now in 1975 Coleman says, "Guess what? I was wrong. Busing doesn't accomplish its goal." We should be concentrating on things other than busing to provide for the educational and cultural needs of the deprived segment of our population. But we've lost our bearings since the 1954 "Brown vs. School Board" desegregation case. To "desegregate" is different than to "integrate." I got into trouble with Democratic liberals in 1972 when I refused to support a quota-system for the Democratic National Convention. I am philosophically opposed to quota-systems; they insure mediocrity. The new integration plans being offered are really just quota-systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school. That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with; what it says is, "in order for your child, with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son." That's racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child? The point is that if we look beyond the "old" left to the "New Left," almost all the new liberal leaders and civil rights leaders oppose busing.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Farley, Joe (September 20-26, 1975), An Interview with Senator Joseph R. Biden, publisher: People Paper / Congressional Record
“I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace—someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Philadelphia Enquirer (Oct. 12, 1975) Alana Goodman, “Joe Biden once said Democrats needed ‘a liberal George Wallace’”, Washington Examiner (Feb. 7, 2019)
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don't buy that. I don't feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation ls today, for the sins of my own generation. And I'll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: From Joe Farley (1975-09-13), An Interview With Joe Biden
“Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Busing of schoolchildren (Jun. - Jul. 1977): hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1651.
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full-throated cry of this society: 'I've got mine, so why don't you get yours' and 'What's in it for me?'”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Speech announcing entry into 1988 presidential race, Wilmington, Delaware (June 10, 1987)
“We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society — for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. We must reclaim the tradition of community in our society. Only by recognizing that we share a common obligation to one another and to our country can we ever hope to maximize our national or personal potential. We must reassert the oneness of America. America has been and must once again be the seamless web of caring and community.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Speech announcing entry into 1988 presidential race, Wilmington, Delaware (June 10, 1987)
“The standard of judgment is no longer results but the flickering image of seriousness, skillfully crafted to squeeze into 30 seconds on the nightly news. In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: On the national debate, Speech announcing entry into 1988 presidential race, Wilmington, Delaware (June 10, 1987)
“It is an exciting and dangerous time, for this generation of Americans has the opportunity so rarely granted to others by fate and history. We literally have the chance to shape the future - to put our own stamp on the face and character of America, to bend history just a little bit.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: On the national debate, Speech announcing entry into 1988 presidential race, Wilmington, Delaware (June 10, 1987)
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“Let me tell you what is in the bill, and I'll let you all decide whether or not this is "weak". [...] It provides 53 death penalty offenses. Weak as can be, you know? We do everything but hang people for jaywalking in this bill. That's weak stuff.”
— Joe Biden
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More on this quote: Regarding the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which he wrote
• Senate, Date: 1992-05-14, quoted in Beth Baumann (2019-07-23), "Biden Walks Back His Previous Tough On Crime Stance Now That Criminal Justice Reform Is Popular", Town Hall
“When I introduced the budget freeze years ago, the liberals in my party said, "It's an awful thing you’re doing, Joe. All the programs we care about, you're freezing them— money for the blind, the disabled, education, and so on." And my argument then is the one I make now, which is the strongest, most compelling reason to be for this amendment or an amendment. And that is that "if we don't do that, all the things I care about are going to be gone."”
— Joe Biden
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Source: 1990s
“When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans' benefits. I meant every single, solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a third time and I tried it a fourth time. Somebody has to tell me in here, how we're going to do this hard work without dealing with any of those sacred cows.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Senate, Date: 1995-01-31, quoted with video in Walker Bragman (2019-05-20), "Watch: Joe Biden Once Boasted About Wanting to Cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans’ Benefits", Paste Magazine
“You and I both know, and all of us here really know, and it's a thing we have to face, that the only way, the only way we're going to get rid of Saddam Hussein is we're going to end up having to start it alone — start it alone — and it's going to require guys like you in uniform to be back on foot in the desert taking this son of a — taking Saddam down. You know it and I know it.”
— Joe Biden
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Source: 1990s
“But I respectfully suggest, Major, that the responsibility is slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether to take the nation to war alone, or to take the nation to war part way, or to take the Nation to work half-way. That is a real tough decision.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: To Scott Ritter, in hearings about the disarmament process, before the Senate Committee on Armed Services (September 1998), quoted in Ryan Grim (2020-01-07), "Joe Biden, five years before invasion, said the only way of disarming Iraq is "taking Saddam down"", The Intercept
“Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Meet the Press (Date: 2000-12-31)
“Saddam Hussein's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, in my view, is one of those clear dangers. Even if the right response to his pursuit is not so crystal clear, one thing is clear. These weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein, or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Date: 2002-07-31, quoted in Tara Golshan and Alex Ward (2019-10-15), "Joe Biden’s Iraq problem", Vox
“He made a compelling case. The predominance of the evidence, the pure weight of the evidence, I think anyone. … Let me put it this way, if I were back practicing law I can’t imagine I could not convince an open-minded jury of the facts that he presented as having been true.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Biden on Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations. "Biden’s Record on Iraq War". FactCheck.org. (February 5, 2003)
“Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Date: 2004-07-28)
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“It's going to be very difficult. I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. I think it's always a tragedy, and I think that it should be rare and safe, and I think we should be focusing on how to limit the number of abortions. There ought to be able to have a common ground and consensus as to do that.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Texas Monthly interview, 2006, quoted in Clark Mindock (2019-06-14), "Joe Biden says he does not view ‘abortion as a choice and a right’ in unearthed video", The Independent place: UK
“I voted for a fence, I voted, unlike most Democrats — and some of you won't like it — I voted for 700 miles of fence,… And the reason why I add that parenthetically, why I believe the fence is needed does not have anything to do with immigration as much as drugs. And let me tell you something folks, people are driving across that border with tons, tons, hear me, tons of everything from byproducts for methamphetamine to cocaine to heroin and it's all coming up through corrupt Mexico.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: South Carolina rotary club (November 27, 2006), quoted in Andrew Kaczynski (2019-05-10), "Joe Biden once said a fence was needed to stop 'tons' of drugs from Mexico", CNN Politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15djRzWG3_0
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent … I'm not joking.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: (July 6, 2006), Biden Say What?, publisher: National Journal/C-SPAN, retrieved: 2008-08-22
“remember, no guys 'til you're thirty”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: 1 October 2006 page 121 of "A Governor's Story" by Jennifer Granhol published 20 September 2011
“I'm running for president because I think that, with a lot of help, I can stem the tide of this slide and restore America’s leadership in the world and change our priorities. I will argue that my experience and my track record — both on the foreign and domestic side — put me in a position to be able to do that. I would respectfully suggest to you that the Democrats out there understand I am the only person with a plan that can get out of Iraq without our interests in the region not falling apart.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Conference call with reporters after announcing candidacy for the 2008 Democratic president nomination (January 30, 2007)
“I'm not exploring. I'm in. And this is the beginning of a marathon”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: Referring to his choice not to set up an "exploratory committee" and instead enter the race directly; interview on ABC News after announcing candidacy for the 2008 Democratic president nomination (January 30, 2007)
“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.”
— Joe Biden
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Source: 2000s, 2007
“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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Source: 2000s, 2007
“People ask if I can compete with the money of Hillary and Barack. I hope at the end of the day, they can compete with my ideas and my experience.”
— Joe Biden
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Quote source: (2007-01-31), "Biden officially running for president", NBC News retrieved: 2007-02-01
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