Joe Biden

Keeping the American people safe is the commander-in-chief's responsibility, but so too is getting America back to work.

We will not be able to get our economy really back on track until the global economic engine is purring again.

I mean, today, in grave, grave contrast to every single thing done every day of the Trump administration, today was organized.

They thought it through, these decisions they were making about the government were deliberate decisions made on purpose.

Today, Vice President-elect Joe Biden held an event in Delaware to roll out the first selections for his cabinet, for his top national security officials.

I think we should also be focusing on being able to open schools as rapidly as we can.

It's a team that reflects the fact that America is back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it.

We may alter that, we may keep the exact same outline.

In calls from world leaders that I've had about 18 of over 20 so far, I'm not sure the exact number, in the week since we won the election, I've been struck by how much they're looking forward to the United States reasserting its historic…

It's a slow start, but it's starting. And there's two months left to go, so I'm feeling good about the ability to be able to get up to speed.

Some of it's going to depend on the kind of cooperation I can or cannot get from the United States Congress. But I am going to -- I made a commitment in the first 100 days. I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a…

We've gotten outreach from -- from the national security shop, from just across the board. And they're already working out my ability to get presidential daily briefs. We're already working out meeting with the COVID team in the White…

America is back. We're at the head of the table once again. I've spoken with over 20 world leaders and they all are literally really pleased and somewhat excited America is going to reassert its role in the world and be a coalition builder.

He is going to need this foreign policy and National Security team to hit the ground running with his mission of restoring America's reputation around the world, really repairing those relationships with our allies, which he says is his…

Yes, immediately, we've gotten outreach from, from the National Security shop, from up to just across the board and they are already working out my ability to get presidential daily briefs.

This is not a third Obama term, because there's -- we face a totally different world than we faced in the Obama-Biden administration. The President this -- President Trump has changed the landscape. It's become America first. It's been…

The purpose of our administration is once again to unite it. We can't keep this virulent political dialogue going. It has to end.

I said at the outset I wanted to represent this campaign to represent and look like America. We've done that. Now that's what I want the administration to look like and act like.

Blue cities, red cities, it doesn't matter. They're all American citizens, American communities deserve the full support of an American president. I promise you that.

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More people may die because of Emily Murphy's delay in starting the transition.

I can assume that a Biden administration would come in and try to figure out how to make this more affordable and more accessible to a broader range of Americans.

The delay in accepting the presidential election's results... has already been harmful to the real work that needs to be done in getting the new government up to speed.

It's finally happening, right? Twenty days after election day, 16 days after it was clear beyond any doubt that Biden had won and won by a lot.

Look, as I said, we already have significant representation among progressives in our administration. But there's nothing really off the table.