I support changing the Senate rules in whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of Senators from blocking action on voting rights, when it comes to protecting majority rule in America, the majority should rule in the United States Senate.

Joe Biden

It seems like most people have stopped criticizing me on the debate stage, given what happens to them.

What I saw last night was fewer personal attacks. by Joe Biden

What I saw last night was fewer personal attacks.

Nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime, when we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system.

The senator says she's for Bernie, well, I'm for Barack. by Joe Biden

The senator says she's for Bernie, well, I'm for Barack.

Thus far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left, has not said how she's going to pay for it.

China - the problem isn't the trade deficit, the problem is they're stealing our intellectual property. The problem is they're violating the WTO. They're dumping steel on us, and that's why you need to organize the world to take on China, to stop the corrupt practices that are under way.

We don't need those troops there, i would bring them home. by Joe Biden

We don't need those troops there, i would bring them home.

I know that the senator says she's for Bernie. Well I'm for Barack. I think Obamacare worked, this is about candor, honesty, big ideas.

Right after I got elected, my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident, and my two sons were badly injured. And I just had been elected, not sworn in. And I lost my faith for a while. I came back, and then later, when my son Beau came home from Iraq and -- with a terminal disease, and a year later, year-and-a-half later, losing him was like losing part of my soul. But the fact is that I learned that the way you deal with it -- is you deal with it by finding purpose, purpose in what you do. And that's why I hope -- I hope he's proud of me today.

I know that the senator says Elizabeth Warren's for Bernie Sanders, I'm for Barack Obama, i think the Obamacare worked. I think the way we add to it, replace everything that's been cut, add a public option, guarantee that everyone will be able to have affordable insurance number one.

Medicare goes away as you know it, all the Medicare you have is g... by Joe Biden

Medicare goes away as you know it, all the Medicare you have is gone.

Obamacare is working, no one has to keep their private insurance, but if they like their insurance, they should be able to keep it... If they don't, they can buy into the Biden plan, which is Obamacare.

The idea that we don't have elimination of assault type weapons -- magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them -- it's absolutely mindless, it is no violation of the Second Amendment -- it's just a bow to the special interest of the gun manufacturers and The NRA. It's got to stop.

If you have a generous union-backed plan and you have given up union wages to get that plan, you can keep it.

The story was that he refused the medal because the fella he tried to save -- and risked his life saving -- died, that's the beginning, middle and end. The rest of you guys can take it and do what you want with it.

He said,' Sir, I don't want the damn thing !'. by Joe Biden

He said,' Sir, I don't want the damn thing !'.

By the way, that doesn't mean it'll stay that way, you can go back and look : When Barack( Obama) clobbered me in the campaign, you know, I had more black support in South Carolina than anybody, including him. I got blown out in Iowa and all of a sudden everything changed. Same thing could happen.

Whomever I pick, preferably it will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender, but I'm not making that commitment until I know that the person I'm dealing with I can completely and thoroughly trust as authentic and on the same page [ as me ].

I'm not using those examples anymore. by Joe Biden

I'm not using those examples anymore.

You worked like hell. You gave up wages for it. by Joe Biden

You worked like hell. You gave up wages for it.