On the record
Vice Presidents
Quotes from current and former Vice Presidents.
Current vice president
Former vice presidents
His administration had been working hard to get the hostages out of Gaza.
There was no higher priority for him than securing the release of these American hostages.
The President has been asking hard questions.
The President and the U.S. do not want to be directing the Israelis.
Should Israel delay the ground invasion until he can get more hostages out? Yes.
The administration has been counseling the Israeli government to think hard about the ground invasion.
The world is at an inflection point, and it is fighting a war against tyranny. This is a shared enemy by democratic countries, and that Ukraine and Israel are finding themselves on the front line of this fight.
The Palestinian civilians are not Hamas, they are not one in the same, but also saying that he told Netanyahu that he needs to abide by the laws of war and therefore not target civilians
The president making clear the US does not want to get involved in direct conflict with Russia over Ukraine.
This is a smart investment that will pay dividends for decades to come.
I do not seek to have US troops fighting against Russia, but he also alluded to US troops potentially fighting in the Middle East.
He was linking essentially Vladimir Putin and Hamas both supported by Iran, but he says wanting to destroy a democratic neighbor.
We are the United States of America. The United States of America. And there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity, if we do it together.
Let me be clear about something. We send Ukraine equipment sitting in our stockpiles.
On Ukraine, I'm asking Congress to make sure we can continue to send Ukraine the weapons they need to defend themselves and their country without interruption, so Ukraine can stop Putin's brutality in Ukraine.
We cannot give up on peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution.
The security package I'm sending to Congress and asking Congress to do is an unprecedented commitment to Israel's security that will sharpen Israel's qualitative military edge.
It's just not worth it. That's why tomorrow I'm going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America's national security needs, to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine.
American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep us, America, safe.
If Putin attacks a NATO ally, we will defend every inch of NATO, which the treaty requires and calls for.
If we don't stop Putin's appetite for power and control in Ukraine, he won't limit himself just to Ukraine.
Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, and innocent Palestinian families are suffering greatly because of them.






