Our allies around the world have stood with us - and fought with us - time and again, most recently in Iraq, Afghanistan, and against ISIL. Vice President Joe Biden More Quotes by Vice President Joe Biden More Quotes From Vice President Joe Biden I don't consider Republicans enemies, they're friends. Vice President Joe Biden politics I really respect the members up there and I still have a lot of Republican friends. I don't think my chief enemy is the Republican Party. This is a matter of making things work. Vice President Joe Biden politics I'm no Bernie Sanders, he's a great guy by the way. He really is. I'm not a populist. But I'm a realist. Vice President Joe Biden politics If you take a look at everyone from the IMF to Standard and Poor's, the greatest concern they have about economic growth is the concentration of wealth. Vice President Joe Biden politics In the summer of 2007, Iowa State Rep. Lisa Heddens introduced her mentally disabled son to then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware. ‘Biden didn’t brush him off and was patient with the way he speaks. You know, it is hard to understand him,’ Heddens said of the meeting with her son, Paul, who was then 12 years old. Biden stayed in touch…And that’s the reason Heddens will wait untilBiden makes a decisionon whether he'll run before she makes a decision about who she'll support. State Senator Herman Quirmbach publicly endorsed Biden earlier this week, even though Biden has not yet announced his intention to run. Vice President Joe Biden politics I don't want anybody to be down right now about what's going on in the Republican Party, there's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century. Vice President Joe Biden politics Folks, the American people are with us. I know it doesn't feel that way, but I'm telling you, I'm telling you the American people agree with us. this will pass: the Trump stuff, and that stuff that you're hearing on the other team. Vice President Joe Biden politics You've just got to get up. And I'd feel like I was letting down Beau... if I didn't just get up. Vice President Joe Biden top-news I have met virtually every major leader in the world, i know these guys. I know them better than anyone in the administration because I've been hanging around so long. Vice President Joe Biden politics There's no way to put a timetable on that, the way I read it is it was neither affirmation that Vice President Joe Biden's plunging in on a Shermanesque statement that Vice President Joe Biden'll never run. Vice President Joe Biden politics Under the leadership of President President Barack Obama, we've gone from crisis to recovery and now we are on the verge of a real resurgence in the American economy. Vice President Joe Biden politics I will be straightforward with you. The most relevant factor in my decision is whether my family and I have the emotional energy to run, the honest to God answer is I just don't know. Vice President Joe Biden politics Unless I can go to my party and the American people and say that I'm able to devote my whole heart and my whole soul to this endeavor, it would not be appropriate, and everybody talks about a lot of other factors: The other people in the race and whether I can raise the money and whether I can get an organization. That's not the factor. The factor is can I do it? Can my family? Vice President Joe Biden politics If I can reach that conclusion that we can do it in a fashion that would still make it viable, I would not hesitate to do it. Vice President Joe Biden politics You were there in ways that absolutely blew me away. Vice President Joe Biden politics I've given this a lot of thought and dealing internally with the family on how we do this, the calculus for this has been evaluating his personal feelings, having just come off Beau's passing. Vice President Joe Biden top-news If I were to announce to run, I have to be able to commit to all of you that I would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul, and right now, both are pretty well banged up. Vice President Joe Biden politics Kate is a talented individual who brings a range of communications experience to the team, she will be a key advisor to me, a terrific asset to our office, and an important member of the entire White House organization. Vice President Joe Biden politics I'm going to put aside my notes and talk to you from my heart because I've been in this business for 45 years. Vice President Joe Biden politics We're not looking to embarrass him, we're not looking for regime change. We're not looking for any fundamental alteration of the circumstances inside Russia. We're looking for him to, in our view, act rationally. Vice President Joe Biden politics
