Only one way to go for Joe Biden...
Posted on 10/03/2008 10:37:06 AM PDT by mondoreb
Joe Biden's Twenty-five Greatest Verbal Hits
25 Joe Biden Quotes: What He said Then
Only one way to go for Joe Biden...
Twenty-five Joe Biden quotes to compare and contrast with what the Delaware senator told the nation last night in the vice-presidential debate. Check back often for updates.
Did we miss any reader's favorite Joe Biden verbal moment?
If we did, readers can leave their favorites in the comments at the end of this article.
“John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who...” --Biden on The Daily Show - August 2 2005
“I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.” --Biden, New York Observer interview - 2007
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden, in an address to Indian-Americans
ALSO at DBKP: DBKP Library of Quotes
"It's a bad idea and should be shut down and dismantled." --Joe Biden, on the Alaskan pipeline - 1973
"A tragic mistake." --Joe Biden, on the surge of troops in Iraq - 2006
"Uh, uh, Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about?" --to wheelchair-bound Missouri state senator, Charles Graham - September 9, 2008
"Folk, let me be straight with you...I have a bad habit of doing that." --Biden in the Delaware Journal - September 2007
”I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.” --Joe Biden, on Barack Obama - 2007
“The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.” --Biden, post-debate appearance, MSNBC - October 30 2007
“Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran." --Joe Biden, to staff three weeks after September 11, 2001
Continue reading 15 more: Joe Biden Quotes: Joe Biden’s 25 Greatest Hits, Quotes-wise
“You don’t know my state,” he said. “My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.”
Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with.”
-George Santayana-
Quotes not the same without a rim-shot.
I love a good yarn.
Biden, on a post-debate appearance on MSNBC, October 30, 2007: “The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.”
Doggone!
I was looking for that quote and the source and then got busy doing something else and when I returned—I forgot all about this one!
This will go into the updates!
Thanks!
He’s right about education in Iowa.
Thanks,
I used this as a source for several.
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