Joe Biden

I want to make it clear, I intend to vote for you, because I believe, strongly, the President is entitled to his Cabinet...

We are strongest when we are bipartisan. Historically in the old days with Senator Vandenberg and others, foreign policy picked up in a bipartisan fashion almost always and politics ended at the water's edge.

I think that is how it ought to be if it is properly done, but that requires a level of consultation, a level of respect, a level of listening and of dialogue that just has been absent.

I think the world is waiting for a different approach, and I am confident that if the President offers the genuine opportunities for this kind of mutuality, not just here but abroad, you will be able to advance the interests of our country…

I do not personally think it is all on the table sufficiently when you combine the needs of the counterproliferation efforts with various challenges of the human condition.

What I think we are getting at here in these questions to you is not about the legalisms of this, but in these troubled times--and we are dealing with great threats of fundamentalism that threatens our way of life--that we are different…

I would hope that you might, as we look at these programs here, expand the coverage to these countries.

I attempted to add countries to the HIV/AIDS legislation--Caribbean countries.

The single most dangerous thing in the world is the spread of nuclear weapons and their possible access by the bad guys beyond the nation-states.

I do believe one thing firmly, that there is no possibility of any fundamental change in the nuclear program in Korea or Iran, absent the United States actively, deeply engaged in the negotiation.

I didn't find a lot of distinction between quote, 'Iranian democrats,' with a small 'd,' and the Ayatollas.

Well, I think it would be a useful thing, upon consideration, once you're sworn in, for somebody to tell the American people what to expect...

Do you see any possibility--now, everything is possible--do you see any reasonable possibility that the United States would withdraw the bulk of its forces before the end of 2005?

What we need is a success strategy, not an exit strategy.

I think we will know when the Iraqis are able to have in place institutions.

I would take, for example, what has been going on with the Kurds about provincial elections in Kirkuk.

I think it's going to be somewhat clearer.

I do look forward to General Luck's coming back and letting us know what the next phase ought to be.

I think we need a success strategy.

The war was a stunning success.

I would have voted to give the President authority to go to Iraq.

You sent them in there because of weapons of mass destruction.

But, Senator Boxer, we went to war, not because of aluminum tubes, we went to war because this was the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a man against whom we had gone to war before.

Our role, as you rightly say, is to focus on what we can do to help them build capacity in their security forces and in their economy.

I would rather trade the considerable difficulty of helping the Iraqi people get to a democratic future...