Joseph Biden United Quotations

It was to say to the United Nations, 'By your standards ... you have not done your job relative to Saddam Hussein,'

You know there's this tradition in the United States Navy that if a captain of a ship goes up on the shoals, almost regardless of whether it's his fault or not, he loses command.

If, at the time the United States withdraws its combat forces the Europeans all pull out, it is going to be a very difficult sell in the United States of America,

It acknowledges that the Security Council fully understands that this is the world's problem -- Iraq is the world's problem -- not just the United States problem, and that failure to secure the peace in Iraq would have significant consequences and ramifications for the region and the world,

We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that's already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.

It is unreasonable to ask the president of the United States to say that he will oppose bringing up this treaty during the duration of his presidency, ... If that's the price that has to be paid, then we'll have a vote.