Joseph Biden actually said...

"As you approach the resolution of an incredibly controversial issue, ideologically, politically and every other way, usually, you find excesses grow from that. But the president does not believe, nor ..."

"Less bad is not good. That's not how President Obama and I measure success."

"Don't you find it remarkable that one of the most partisan, liberal men in the last century, serving in the Senate, that so many of his foes embrace him, because they know he made them bigger."

"I think that is the worst idea in the world."