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Biden's 2020 comments in Iowa
Comments of Vice President Joe Biden on Campaign Issues are extracted from the seventh Democratic Party Presidential Primary Debate in Iowa on January 14, 2020.
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China
on China : I would be putting pressure on China to put pressure on Korea, to cease and desist from their nuclear power, make -- their efforts to deal with nuclear weapons. (Jan 14, 2020)
on China : I would move forward as we did before -- and you reported it extensively, Wolf -- about moving forward the whole notion of defense against nuclear weapons, that we would -- and when China said to me, when Xi Jinping said to me, that's a threat to us, I said, we're going to move and protect our interests unless you get involved and protect it. (Jan 14, 2020)
on China : I would reignite the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would put enormous pressure, enormous pressure on China, because that's also in their interests for them to put pressure on North Korea to cease and desist. (Jan 14, 2020)
on China : So we better figure out how we begin to write the rules of the road, not China. (Jan 14, 2020)
on China : We've got to bring the other 25 percent of our allies along with us to set the rules of the road so China cannot continue to abuse their power by stealing our intellectual property and doing all the other things, using their corporate state system to our significant disadvantage. (Jan 14, 2020)
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defense
on defense : I would move forward as we did before -- and you reported it extensively, Wolf -- about moving forward the whole notion of defense against nuclear weapons, that we would -- and when China said to me, when Xi Jinping said to me, that's a threat to us, I said, we're going to move and protect our interests unless you get involved and protect it. (Jan 14, 2020)
economy
on economy : If we don't set the rules of the road by going out to our partners, instead of poking our eye -- excuse me, poking our finger in the eye of all of our friends and allies, we make up 25 percent of the world's economy. (Jan 14, 2020)
on economy : I have support across the board, and I'm not worried about taking on Donald Trump at all. And with regard to the economy, I can hardly wait to have that debate with him. (Jan 14, 2020)
families
on family : And I was making $42,000 a year.I commuted every single solitary day to Wilmington, Delaware, over 500 miles a day -- excuse me, 250 miles a day, because I could not afford but for my family childcare. (Jan 14, 2020)
farmers
on farmers : And one of the ways to do it is with farmers here in Iowa, by making them the first group in the world to get to net zero emissions by paying them for planting and absorbing carbon in their fields right -- there's more to say, but I know my time is... (Jan 14, 2020)
health care
on health : And by the way, there's mental health parity that I call for in the Obamacare expanded with the Biden option. (Jan 14, 2020)
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Iran
on Iran : I was part of that deal to get the nuclear agreement with Iran, bringing together the rest of the world, including some of the folks who aren't friendly to us. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Iran : The next president has to be able to pull those folks back together, re-establish our alliances, and insist that Iran go back into the agreement, which I believe with the pressure applied as we put on before we can get done. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Iran : We're in a situation where our allies in Europe are making a comparison between the United States and Iran, saying both ought to stand down, making a moral equivalence. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Iran : It does not give authority to go into Iran. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Iranian government : There was no movement on the part of the Iranian government to get closer to a nuclear weapon. (Jan 14, 2020)
Japan
on Japan : I would reignite the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would put enormous pressure, enormous pressure on China, because that's also in their interests for them to put pressure on North Korea to cease and desist. (Jan 14, 2020)
Korea
on Korea : I would be putting pressure on China to put pressure on Korea, to cease and desist from their nuclear power, make -- their efforts to deal with nuclear weapons. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Korea : I would reignite the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would put enormous pressure, enormous pressure on China, because that's also in their interests for them to put pressure on North Korea to cease and desist. (Jan 14, 2020)
labor
on labor : There will be no trade agreements signed in my administration without environmentalists and labor at the table. (Jan 14, 2020)
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Medicare
on Medicare : There's a way to do that. The way to do that is to take Obamacare, reinstate -- rebuild it, provide a public option, allow Medicare for those folks who want it, and in fact make sure that we, in the process, reduce the cost of -- of drug prices, reduce the cost of being able to buy into the -- subsidize it further, and make it everybody � available to everyone. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Medicare : You can do it without that. You can do it without Medicare For All. You can get the same place. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Medicare : The proposal I lay out does, in fact, limit drug cost. It sets up -- it allows all the drug companies -- excuse me, it allows you to -- Medicare to negotiate with drug companies for the price. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Medicare : If they don't like it, or the employer gets rid of it, they can buy into a Medicare plan in the Biden plan. (Jan 14, 2020)
Middle East
on Middle East : I would leave troops in the Middle East in terms of patrolling the Gulf, where we have -- where we are now, small numbers of troops, and I think it's a mistake to pull out the small number of troops that are there now to deal with ISIS. (Jan 14, 2020)
military
on military : No, there was the authorization for the use of military force that was passed by the United States Congress, House, and Senate, and signed by the president. (Jan 14, 2020)
North Korea
on North Korea : I would reignite the relationship between Japan and South Korea, and I would put enormous pressure, enormous pressure on China, because that's also in their interests for them to put pressure on North Korea to cease and desist. (Jan 14, 2020)
Obamacare
on Obamacare : There's a way to do that. The way to do that is to take Obamacare, reinstate -- rebuild it, provide a public option, allow Medicare for those folks who want it, and in fact make sure that we, in the process, reduce the cost of -- of drug prices, reduce the cost of being able to buy into the -- subsidize it further, and make it everybody � available to everyone. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Obamacare : And by the way, there's mental health parity that I call for in the Obamacare expanded with the Biden option. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Obamacare : I would argue that the biggest breakthrough in recent time was us being able to do in our administration what five -- five Democratic presidents couldn't get done, and that is pass Obamacare. (Jan 14, 2020)
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taxes
on tax : And a 4 percent tax on income over $24,000 doesn't even come close to paying for between $30 trillion, and some estimates as high as $40 trillion over 10 years. (Jan 14, 2020)
on tax : Secondly, I think we should have an $8,000 tax credit which would put 7 million women back to work that could afford to go to work and still care for their children as an $8,000 tax credit. (Jan 14, 2020)
trade
on trade : And by the way, the idea -- I don't know that there's any trade agreement that the senator would ever think made any sense, but the problem is that 95 percent of the customers are out there. (Jan 14, 2020)
on trade : And there will be no trade agreement until we invest more in American workers. (Jan 14, 2020)
on trade : There will be no trade agreements signed in my administration without environmentalists and labor at the table. (Jan 14, 2020)
on trade : That's one of the things that has been improved with the trade agreement with Mexico. (Jan 14, 2020)
Trump
on Trump : He went ahead -- and it was predictable from the day he pulled out of the agreement, Trump, what exactly would happen. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Trump : Other than that, I like him, and he -- he ...(LAUGHTER) And he got a love letter from Trump right after that. (Jan 14, 2020)
on Trump : I have support across the board, and I'm not worried about taking on Donald Trump at all. And with regard to the economy, I can hardly wait to have that debate with him. (Jan 14, 2020)
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war
on war : It was a mistake to trust that they weren't going to go to war. (Jan 14, 2020)
on war : I was asked to bring 156,000 troops home from that war, which I did. (Jan 14, 2020)
on war : The world, in fact, voted to send inspectors in and they still went to war. (Jan 14, 2020)
on war : They said they were not going to go to war. (Jan 14, 2020)
on war : I ran the first time as a 29-year-old kid against the war in Vietnam on the grounds that the only way to take a nation to war is with the informed consent of the American people. (Jan 14, 2020)
women
on women : But the real issue is who can bring the whole party together, represents all elements of the party, African-American, brown, black, women, men, gay, straight. (Jan 14, 2020)
on women : I agree women can win. And I have went in and campaigned for 27 of them this last -- in 2018, the best group I've ever campaigned for, in terms of competence. (Jan 14, 2020)
on women : Secondly, I think we should have an $8,000 tax credit which would put 7 million women back to work that could afford to go to work and still care for their children as an $8,000 tax credit. (Jan 14, 2020)
workers
on workers : And there will be no trade agreement until we invest more in American workers. (Jan 14, 2020)
on workers : We should be focusing on equipping American workers to do that. (Jan 14, 2020)
on workers : We should be putting our money and our effort and our time in preparing American workers to compete in the 21st Century on the high-tech side, dealing with all artificial intelligence. (Jan 14, 2020)
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