Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr.is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, having been jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden represented Delaware as a United States Senator from 1973 until becoming Vice President in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVice President
Date of Birth20 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
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We are willing to vote 10 minutes after we get back in session if in fact they provide the information -- information that Mr. Bolton's staff had access to that they will not give to the majority leader of the United States Senate.
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Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
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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.
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the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.
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It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
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I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
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No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.
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still paying an awesome price for the initial failures on policy and refusal to change them of this administration, of going in with too little power and too little legitimacy.
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Accountability is essential. So the question for me is, what did Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Pentagon know, when did they know it and what did they do about it? ... If the answers are unsatisfactory, resignations should be sought.
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It's incompetence, from my perspective, looking at this.
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Whether we will have ever increasing protections for human liberty and dignity, or whether those protections will be diminished.
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When we were in the Balkans, we, in fact, dealt with the Croats as well as the Serbs according to the Dayton accords...