I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right, if I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's zip code.

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Apologized for saying Barack Obama was clean and articulate. by Joe Biden

Apologized for saying Barack Obama was clean and articulate.

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view. by Joe Biden

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

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You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan. by Joe Biden

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

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President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.

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People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts.

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I have never left another senator out to dry. Never. by Joe Biden

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

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I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

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You know we're going to control the insurance companies. by Joe Biden

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

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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.

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Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. W... by Joe Biden

Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

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It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of... by Joe Biden

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

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No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. by Joe Biden

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

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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.

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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

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I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle ca... by Joe Biden

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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