Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr.is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, having been jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden represented Delaware as a United States Senator from 1973 until becoming Vice President in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVice President
Date of Birth20 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
good-friend house president
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.
differences common values
But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...
biden want dollars
Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.
guilty innocent bill-of-rights
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.
wmd waiting too-late
If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.
issues giving credit
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
cancer moving people
One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.
optimistic kids president
I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.
impact people growth
The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.
opening-up fundamentals fuel
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.
deal interest iraq national relates
We have two national emergencies, ... One relates to our interest in Iraq and the other in the Gulf, and I don't think you can take from one to deal with the other.
chief either local majority police recovered scene stolen town vast weapons
When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.
legal people
We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
boston crumble falter
We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.