Joe Biden

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Joe Biden (allthetropes.org) Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is the 46th president of the United States of America. He is one of only eight people who served as Vice President before serving as President (in his case, he served under Barack Obama), and only the second person (after Richard Nixon) to have served as a Senator and as Vice President before becoming President. He’s also the oldest person to have been elected President of the United States of America.

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there’s a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. Biden at the 2008 Vice Presidential debate

When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’ Joe Biden, Interview with CBS Evening News

It was that hard; I still feel that way. But I believe that President Bush failed to lead. History will judge him harshly not for the mistakes he made- we all make mistakes- but for the opportunities he squandered. Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)

Given Iraq’s strategic location, its large oil reserves, and the suffering of the Iraqi people, we cannot afford to replace a despot with chaos. It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in its wake. Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)

The truth is, every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has had the name of the Democratic senator from the State of Delaware: Joe Biden. Joe Biden (1994)

Saddam Hussein’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, in my view, is one of those clear dangers. Even if the right response to his pursuit is not so crystal clear, one thing is clear. These weapons must be dislodged from Saddam Hussein, or Saddam Hussein must be dislodged from power. US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 2002-07-31, quoted in Tara Golshan and Alex Ward (15 October 2019), “Joe Biden’s Iraq problem”, Vox

I think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one. Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)

Putin knows that when I am president of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (2008)

Joe Biden (Wikipedia) Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˈbaɪdən/, BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.