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
article collective defense nato obligation sacred time
America's commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view - a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.
across aisle friendship hand reach
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
acted change climate effects
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
giving president want
You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.
matter moments judgment
I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.
government venture roles
One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.
grieving president campaigns
As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.
blame crime vicious
It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.
men hands greed
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.
war stupid mean
But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.
lying views giving
I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.
running heart passion
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.
mean abusive-relationship prison
An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.
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.