Tag: Joe Biden

Obama Bewildered Clinton, Biden Would Consider a Prez Run

Buck Banks

I think that, for both Joe and for Hillary, they’ve already accomplished an awful lot in their lives. The question is, do they, at this phase in their lives, want to go through the pretty undignifying process of running all over again.

— President Obama, quoted by the New Yorker, expressing “bewilderment that his friends would want to subject themselves” to another presidential campaign.

Biden: ‘There Is No Republican Party’

Buck Banks

There isn’t a Republican party. I wish there were, I wish there was a Republican party. I wish there was one person we could sit across the table from and make a deal and make the compromise and know when you got up from the table that the deal was done. … There is no — all you had to do was look at their response to the State of the Union, what were there, three or four? I think we should get a little focused here, let’s get a little focused.

— Vice President Joe Biden, on the state of the Republican Party, quoted by the Washington Post.

Biden Says LaGuardia Airport is a Third-World Facility

Buck Banks

If I blindfolded someone and took them at 2 o’clock in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said ‘where do you think you are?’ They would say, ‘this must be America. This is a modern airport.’ If I took them blindfolded and took them to LaGuardia airport in New York, he would like ‘I must be in some third world country.’ I’m not joking.

— Vice President Joe Biden, quoted by CNN.