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1. "you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you're running for president and what will you do when you are president. You shouldn't run until you know the answers to those questions." ~ Joe Biden
2. "We all know - or at least we are told continuously - that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them." ~ Joe Biden
3. "My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist." ~ Joe Biden
4. "Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you." ~ Joe Biden
5. "Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart." ~ Joe Biden
6. "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." ~ Joe Biden
7. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" ~ Joe Biden
8. "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." ~ Joe Biden
9. "America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth." ~ Joe Biden
10. "1983:To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the moral courage, the realism, the idealism, the tenacity, and the ability to sacrifice some of the current comfort to invest in the future... I believe that this generation will rise to the challenge... The experts believe that, like the Democratic Party itself, the less than forty-year-old voters are prepared to sell their souls for some security, real or illusory. They have misjudged us. Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still live, buried deep in our broken hearts." ~ Joe Biden
11. "I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people." ~ Joe Biden
12. "He wanted me to understand two big things: First, that nobody, no group, is above others. Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they'll like what he has to say. And second, that politics was a matter of personal honor. A man's word is his bond. You give your word, you keep it. For as long as I can remember, I've had a sort of romantic notion of what politics should be- and can be. If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game. Nearly forty years after I first got involved, I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe- as I know my grandpop did- that my chosen profession is a noble calling." ~ Joe Biden
13. "Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings:How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my opinion, is by attempting to discern what those who made the law intended...As I wrote in an opinion for our court, the judge's responsibility "is to discern how the framers' values, defined in the context of the world they knew, apply in the world we know.If a judge abandons intentions as his guide, there is no law available to him, and he begins to legislate a social agenda for the American people. That goes well beyond his powers.." ~ Joe Biden
14. "quoting from Neil Kinnock, running against Thatcher in 1987:Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Is it because all our predecessors were thick? Did they lack talent? Those people who could sing, and play, and recite, and write poetry, those people who could make wonderful things with their hands? Those people who could dream dreams, see visions? Why didn't they get it? Was it because they were weak? Those people who could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football? Weak? Those women who could survive eleven childbearings? Were they weak? Anybody really think that they didn't get what we have because they didn't have the talent, or the strength, or the endurance, or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform on which they could stand." ~ Joe Biden
15. "Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains." ~ Joe Biden
16. "I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong." ~ Joe Biden
17. "You know we're going to control the insurance companies." ~ Joe Biden
18. "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." ~ Joe Biden
19. "For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community." ~ Joe Biden
20. "I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars." ~ Joe Biden
21. "When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces." ~ Joe Biden
22. "Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?" ~ Joe Biden
23. "Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't." ~ Joe Biden
24. "This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power." ~ Joe Biden
25. "We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society." ~ Joe Biden
26. "In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless." ~ Joe Biden
27. "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." ~ Joe Biden
28. "Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded." ~ Joe Biden
29. "It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels." ~ Joe Biden
30. "A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me." ~ Joe Biden
31. "Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity." ~ Joe Biden
32. "If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game." ~ Joe Biden
33. "My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be." ~ Joe Biden
34. "Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of a "civil right," it means the nation has arrived at a consensus that is nonnegotiable. Violence against women would no longer be written off ... Once our criminal justice system -- at the local, state and federal levels -- recognized these as serious and inexcusable crimes, women could stop blaming themselves." ~ Joe Biden
35. "Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul." ~ Joe Biden

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