All statements by Joe Biden
Biden
False
"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Biden
False
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Biden
Barely True
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."

Joe Biden on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Biden
True
"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Biden
Pants on fire!
Rudy Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency."

Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


Biden
False
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

Joe Biden on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in statement on Web site >>Details


Biden
Barely True
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."

Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
Half-True
"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
True
"First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn’t."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
True
"With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program."

Joe Biden on Monday, October 15th, 2007 in >>Details


Biden
False
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details


Biden
Half-True
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."

Joe Biden on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


Biden
True
"You know we can't just pull out now... The truth of the matter is: If we started today, it would take one year, one year to get 160,000 troops physically out of Iraq, logistically."

Joe Biden on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 in CNN/YouTube debate in Charleston, S.C. >>Details


Biden
Pants on fire!
"The president is brain-dead."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 in a news release. >>Details


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