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Vice President of the United States

Joe Biden is a seasoned American politician who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States. Born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden has held several key positions in his political career, including Senator and Vice President. He has made significant contributions in the fields of foreign and domestic policy.

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“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.”

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“I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.”

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“I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.”

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“The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are entitled to know as much as we can about the person that we're about to entrust with safeguarding our future and the future of our kids.”

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“Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.”

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“This Republican Kevin McCarthy makes Hillary [Clinton] the victim.”

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“If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.”

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“Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.”

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“I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.”

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“I have never touched Hillary [Clinton] inappropriately.”

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“I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.”

House Restaurants

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“I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.”

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“I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.”

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“Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?”

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“Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.”

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“Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.”

Made Hard My Own Common Proud Core Curriculum Common Core

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“I am a Catholic. I can't say that without pointing out that I oppose abortion with all my heart and soul. Bill Clinton wanted them safe and rare. Barack Obama is heartsick that so many people he knows have had abortions. But we're all pro-choice and believe in reproductive freedom and oppose the Republicans' War on Women.”

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“This Administration [of Barack Obama] favors a pluralistic world and respects cultural differences, so it's wrong for the West and American elitists to judge how women are treated under Sharia. I'm going too long on all this, but I choke up on the President's legacy of reaching out to the Muslim world. It's an emotional thing.”

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“You guys at Fox can't seem to get your facts straight.”

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“In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.”

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“I was first in my family to go to college.”

Firsts College My Family

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“I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.”

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“People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.”

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“When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."”

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“Al Gore invented the Internet.”

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“I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: "We got to preven dis from hapinin agen. "”

Said Agree Benghazi

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“It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.”

“What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.”

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“I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.”

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“My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.”

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“And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.”

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“Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.”

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“What I was saying is that Israel cannot count on the United States.”

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“There is no question that I would be the better president. But as for the campaign, are Americans ready for a general election in which both major party candidates are ADD? Quite frankly, it could provide an opening for a third party candidate, maybe someone backed by the evil Koch brothers.”

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“Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off.”

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“The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.”

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“We were never motorheads. We knew fast cars. We knew how to siphon gas - me - charge the battery when it was down. But never hot-wired a car.”

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“Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.”

Thinking Ends Car Dad

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“Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.”

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“We spent $100 billion on education, saving the education system 300,000 teachers who were laid off because of the recession. We also put tens of thousands of lower income kids in college through Pell grants which has fundamentally all their opportunity. We did the same thing with regard to what we did on transportation. So we weren't just trying to - we knew we had to do something big to keep us from going over the cliff into a depression and pull us out of hole.”

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“We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.”

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“The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.”

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“Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.”

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“Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.”

People Together America Wealthy

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“My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.”

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“Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?”

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“We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.”

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“The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.”

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“You turn on the television, it's like, "Woah is me! God almighty, we're awful." We are so down and out we are - name me a country in the world, name me one leader anywhere in the world who wouldn't trade places in a heartbeat. We by far, we're going to own the 21st century.”

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“We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.”

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Born: November 20, 1942
Known for: Vice President of the United States
Quotes: 366

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