Joe Biden

Here in the United States we know as well as anyone that renewing our democracy and strengthening our democratic institution requires constant effort. American democracy is an ongoing struggle to live up to our highest ideals and to heal…

This is the defining challenge of our time, democracy.

Democracy doesn't happen by accident. We have to renew it with each generation, and this is an urgent matter on all our parts in my view. Because the data we're seeing is largely pointing in the wrong direction.

The events of January 6th exposed the fragility of those democratic institutions and traditions that we had perhaps come to take for granted.

Around The World, Democracy Needs Champions

We’re the leader of the free world and we’re hosting the summit for democracy.

It starts with the most significant investment in roads and bridges in America in 70 years.

Electric buses, you add them to the fleet, it`s a win-win-win. They`re manufactured here in America, creating good union jobs, they`re good for the environment, and they`re making them free for all riders.

I don`t think I could take one more phrase that`s going to be infrastructure weak. But guess what, it`s going to be infrastructure decade now, man. No more talking. Action.

Without healthy competition, big players can change and charge whatever they want and treat you however they want.

I was very straightforward. There was no minced words. It was polite, but I made it very clear. If in fact, he invades Ukraine, there`ll be severe consequences, like not he`s ever seen, or ever happened seen in terms of being imposed.

Biden warned Russia's autocratic leader that he would do what needed to be done to protect our allies in the region.

We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies if they were to attack under Article 5, it's a sacred obligation. That obligation does not extend to NATO, I mean to Ukraine. If in fact, he invades Ukraine, there will…

I will look you in the eye and tell you -- things we did not do in 2014 we are prepared to do now.

Joseph Biden for his part emphasized the allegedly threatening nature of movements of Russian troops near the Ukrainian borders and outlined sanctions measures that the United States and its allies would be ready to apply in the event of a…

As we see with COVID-19 and the Delta variant, and now with Omicron variant, all that emerged elsewhere. It all came from somewhere else. And to beat this pandemic, we need to go to where it came from in the rest of the world. We also need…

I don’t see this as being about the business of the presidency, so we don’t need to protect it.

Biden did warn Russia’s autocratic leader that he would do what needed to be done to protect our allies in the region.

Even my Republican friends in Congress, not a single one of them voted for the rescue plan. I`m not going to embarrass any one of them but I have here a list of how back in their districts they`re bragging about the rescue plan.

The Minsk Agreements offer the best basis for negotiations and the U.S. is prepared to support a revived effort if the parties welcome that.

We are also warning, and the President warned President Putin today, of severe costs and consequences, including deploying far harsher economic measures than we have used before if Russia chooses the path of confrontation and military…

The United States' commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence is unwavering.

If Russia attacks Ukraine, we will be united in imposing severe consequences on Moscow for its actions, including high-impact economic measures that we have refrained from using in the past.

We are committed to Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence, and that is unwavering.

But if Russia attacks Ukraine, we will be united in imposing severe consequences on Moscow for its actions.