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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

- Joe Biden

Innovation, Citizen, Away, Faith

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

- Joe Biden

Legacy, Country, Burying, Institutions

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

- Joe Biden

United, Clinton, States, Qualified

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

- Joe Biden

Die, Some, Over, Chinese

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.

- Joe Biden

Doubts, Been, Regime, Syrian

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

- Joe Biden

Want, Alive, Better Off, Bin

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

- Joe Biden

Country, Conscience, Social, Occurs

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

- Joe Biden

Comfortable, Want, Know, Laying

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

- Joe Biden

Go, Largest, Slight, Donuts

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

- Joe Biden

More, Going, Intrusive, Intrusion

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

- Joe Biden

Mumbai, Back, Named, Singapore

You've all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character - one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

- Joe Biden

Country, Over, Means, Embodiment

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

- Joe Biden

Financial, Will, Going, Newly

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

- Joe Biden

Fighting, Good Governance, Corruption

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.

- Joe Biden

El Salvador, Additional, Salvador

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

- Joe Biden

Work, Say, Expression, Joey

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

- Joe Biden

Father, More, Expression, Joey

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

- Joe Biden

Best, Sustainable, Program, Verifiable

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

- Joe Biden

Chance, Country, Given, Ordinary People

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

- Joe Biden

Through, Keep, Ukraine, Putin

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.

- Joe Biden

Own, United, Been, Public Life

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.

- Joe Biden

Some, Been, Capital, Allies

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

- Joe Biden

Small, Big, Been, Recovered

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

- Joe Biden

Environmental, Want, Bizarre, Highways

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

- Joe Biden

Election, Competent, Had, Polling

Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.

- Joe Biden

Security, Part, National, National Security

We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.

- Joe Biden

Question, Close Friends, Israelis

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

- Joe Biden

Love, Book, Why, Traveled

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

- Joe Biden

Unions, Here, United States, Middle Class

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

- Joe Biden

Want, Judgment, Input, Abide

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