All statements involving Joe Biden
"When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran."
"The bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon — other than these drug gangs taking on one another — end up being shot with their own weapon."
The 30 percent tax rate called for under President Barack Obama’s proposed Buffett Rule "is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already -- not just for millionaires, for people making over $200,000."
"Nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years."
Says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is "the smartest guy that I know, in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this."
In Iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
In Libya, "America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life."
"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal "eliminates Medicare" in 10 years.
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
"If you shut down Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, it's estimated you'd have to add seven new lanes to I-95 to accommodate the increased traffic."
"Sen. Joe Biden, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, recommended partitioning Iraq into three separate entities."
"I never called for a partition" of Iraq.
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
"In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month."
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
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