Joe Biden Quotes
I'M NOT GOING NUTS.
~ Joe Biden, 2019 |
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Why don't you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time? [To the manager of frozen custard shop in Milwaukee in 2010 when he offered him a dessert for free if the veep cut taxes.]
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If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
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You ever been to a caucus? ... No you haven't. You're a lying dog-faced pony solider. [To young female voter]
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I should not have been so cavalier. [Regarding: comment that blacks if they voted Trump in 2020 presidential election weren't "Black".
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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. [Regarding US presidential candidate Barack Obama, January 2007. He later apologised for these remarks.]
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Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created, by the, you know the, you know the thing. [Botching US Declaration of Independence quote.]
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You're full of S***! [To factory worker who accused him of trying to end the US Constitution Second Amandment, which guarantees right to bear arms. The US presidential candidate calso called the car plant worker a "horse's ass" during a campaign stop.]
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Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. [To group of mostly Asian and Hispanic voters.]
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Isn't it a bitch? This vice president thing? - That was a joke, that was a joke. Best decision I ever made. I'm joking. That was a joke. [To Harvard University student who identified himself as the student body's vice president, in 2014]
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I am a gaffe machine. But by God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can't tell the truth.
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If I had intended to cheat, would I have been so stupid? ... I value my word above all else. [In letter to Syracuse University College of Law pleading not to be dismissed. This was after he "used five pages from a published law review article without quotation or attribution", accoding to a faculty report.]
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Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle 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 is a three-letter-word, according to Biden speaking about John McCain's economic policies at a US presidential election rally, October 2008.
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You know, there's a uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing uh, that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it's called, he called it the, you know, the World War II, he had the war - the War Production Board. [Rambling and struggling for words during CNN interview about coronavirus response, in April 2020.]
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A rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality. [Arguing that "busing" - which he opposed as a senator in 1975 - would undermine black identity.]
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But we cannot let this - we've never allowed any crisis from a Civil War straight through to a pandemic in '17, all the way around, '16, we have never, never, let our democracy take second fiddle, we can both have a democracy and elections and at the same time protect the public health. [Asked on ABC News if he was open to idea of not being able to hold Democratic Party Convention in August 2020. A befuddled Biden lost his train of thought, made no sense and forgot when 1918 flu pandemic occurred.]
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Every once in a while, a generation of leaders gets a set of problems that are configured in a way tht there's no historical precedent to look back on - other than our grit, other than some courage and determination - to know how to deal with it. The president and I were talking about something yesterday in the Oval Office which, with the press here I'll not suggest what it was, but he response to the folks who were in the office was, if we do everthing right, if we do it with absolute certainty, we stand up there and we make really tough decisions, there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong. [At meeting with House Democrats in 2009, when party was facing criticism over $787 billion economic stimulus package, he suggested the White House might be handing the financial crisis "wrong".]
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If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are. [Addressing National Guard, Baltimore, September 2008, about time his helicopter had to make a land not because of Al Qaeda but due to a sudden snowstorm.]
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A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States - Barack America! [At his first US presidential campaign rally with Barack Obama, August 2008.]
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Uh, uh, Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about. [To wheelchair-bound Missouri state senator, Charles Graham, Septeber 2008.]
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His mom lived in Long Island for 10 years or so, god rest her soul, and, er, although she's, wait - you mom's still alive. It was your dad [who] passed. God bless her soul. I gotta get this straight. [About Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen 2010.
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You know there's an old Irish saying, there's all kinds of old Irish sayings. My grandfather Finnegan, I think he made them up. But uh, it says, may the hinges of our friendship never go rusty. Well, with these two folks that you're about to meet if you haven't already, there's no doubt about them staying oiled and lubricated here, ladies and gentlemen. Now for you who are not full Irish in this room, lubricated has a different meaning for us all.
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