"And David somehow didn't understand brotherhood."

"What is the big secret?"

"It's on your Black Entertainment Television."

"He got big money, too."

"A thrashing shark and I battled with it a couple hours."

"I'm gonna beat ya."

"You have to love your woman when you wake up and smell her breath."

"Barbara made the keynote address to this convention, and two women in a hundred and sixty years is about par for the course."

"She just did it backwards and in high heels."

"You know, tonight I feel a little like I did when I played basketball in the 8th grade."

"Well, it was back then that I came to understand the small truths and the hardships that bind neighbors together. Those were real people with real problems and they had real dreams about getting out of the Depression. I can remember summer nights when we?d put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listene...

"He says that he could bomb Iran, he could bomb Pakistan. He wants to withdraw our troops Iraq so they could go to Pakistan or Iran."

"Nancy Pelosi has not done a really good job of being Speaker of the House."

"She says she's against the war and wants the troops to come home but she keeps giving George Bush blank checks to wage the war."

"I wasn't one before Casey died."

"And they were right. Within five weeks I was back."

"Right before I left the Democratic Party the Democrats again gave George Bush another blank check for war."

"George Bush doesn't pay attention to binding resolutions."

"You know, she likes to blame the Republicans, she likes to blame the blue dog Democrats."

"We all go down to the banks and have a bank holiday. And say we are not investing, we are not putting our money in the system."

"My grandmother lights candles and she, she burns toast."

"Burnt toast and garlic and stuff, you know. Like if you come to her and she don't want you she'll spit after you leave and you'll never come back no more."

"Then put it behind your ear, and you can get whoever you want."

"Yeah, big fun in New Orleans."

"It's not big surprise, but I've been working hard this season. I put a lot of work in it because this is Olympic year."

"I've been doin' good in both events."

"And I know, pretty much, eh, one of the best in the world."

"We know that on the day when, when, when the Olympics start, it's all about business really."

"We go there to beat each other and that's what we go there to do."

"I saw Tyson early in the year and I told him after his injury, I told him that I wish him all the best in recovery because I want you to be there."

"If I'm gonna be Olympic champion, I'm wanna beat two best guys."

"To me, uh, over the years Jamaica and U.S., is a battle for sprints and we look forward to it."

"I would say it excites us when it comes round to the championship cause we're gonna get to try to figure out if we're the better ones."

"It's better because the last part of my race is the best part of my race."

"I'm just continue being the best I can."

"Been good. I've been enjoyin' it. I've been doing a lot for myself."

"It was kind of in the back of my head."

"But coming out of the convention we are going to resume the kind of aggressive schedule on a broad battlefield that we've always intended."

"It was just a mentality of enjoying myself, and a calmness, and being a bit more relaxed, and basically just enjoying myself, so that really helped."

"He goes where the wind takes him sometimes and follows the beat of his own drum. To me that's significant of someone who thinks for himself and is a bit of a free spirit."

"It was just a mentality of enjoying myself, and a calmness, and being a bit more relaxed, and basically just enjoying myself, so that really helped."

"He's the only speaker who's come to this convention without any expectation, because people didn't know him. They knew the biography, but nobody knew him. And boy, they know him now."

"I will bring a lifetime of experience and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002." Announcer: "Barack Obama, he gives a great speech."

"Unlike most other people I'm being straight with you."

"They wanna know, what are you going to do to keep my kid from going back to Iraq?"

"The Biden Crime Bill put 100 thousand cops in the street. I have a way to put that back, another 50 thousand."

"I kind of like it sometimes. Like I'm like, 'Oh, it's kind of nice just to be home.'"

"So me and him kind of like, butt heads sometimes."

"But, sometimes no. Sometimes, you know, it'll be like my favorite thing. I'm like, 'Uhh, I want to keep it.' But you can't."

"My main goal for me is the reason that I also feel pretty confident that I won't end up like that is because I can go out there and, you know, be more of a light to them."

"Millions of Americans who know that Barack understands their dreams; Millions of Americans who know that Barack will fight for people like them; and that Barack will finally bring the change we need."

"And this is the cause of my life -- new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American -- north, south, east, west, young, old -- will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege."

"So for me he is the best guy to lead this nation."

"I'm beat up John, I'm beat up."

"Banged up, hurt, whatever."

"In my personal life, you know, there was some bigger things than this."

"I came out the whom man, its how I am. I 'm built like this."

"Now we were sitting here playing dominos, playing cards, running back and forth and you kept beating me, whatever we were doing. I hate to lose."

"I don?t care what it is. That is my biggest problem."

"That's a lot of people say, oh they just won it not to have the sweep. No no, that's a big win."

"Because last night is the best game he's played in five games."

"Well, I'll go back to Pittsburg into the fifties if you like."

"I said yes, we have to back them up."

"United States has backed us up in two world wars."

"It just keeps me, um, writing better jokes."

"Well, you're born with that."

"Just on a basic level."

"Bust your ass."

"I feel I did my best."

"All people who have very big legs were overweight as a kid."

"You know, as a kid I had a bad relationship with clothes, cause anything made you look more fat."

"Look at my face, I look like a balloon!"

"There have been a lot of, a lot of things go on that in retrospect are going to look like big mistakes."

"Interesting thing about it is we unwound those in a very benign period."

"There's a place for bond insurance in this world."

"Some of the big banks made a big mistake by buying something they didn't understand or not getting it off their books once they created it."

"I'd rather have the XYZ bank pay for it."

"National's got the, probably the best record, you know, of any railroad that I know of."

"That's the best asset you can have."

"We, we have a big energy company."

"Without even the faintest idea what they, was really behind them."

"We have a brick business."

"In just four months, we will have an administration that actually believes in science! And then we can again lead the world in live-saving and life-changing cures."

"Obama will end the war in Iraq responsibly, bring our troops home and begin to repair our alliances around the world."

"I don't think the American people have the sense that, over the course of the last seventeen months, that they've seen Barack Obama as a legislator fighting on behalf of a piece of legislation that he put his name and his brand on."

?He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.?

?These times call for a total change in Washington's worldview. These times require more than a good soldier. They require a wise leader.?

?One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need. A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next president of the United States, Barack America.?

?Ladies and gentlemen, this is no ordinary time. This is no ordinary election.?

"And playing around with the latest technology, whether it's, uh, new PCs, looking at new software, sitting down with researchers, uh, it's , it's why I think my job is the best."

"My happy place is in my bathroom in my tub with my dogs there."

"A lot of runners put in their will: tank top, dolphin shorts."

"I think that British cinema is fantastic."

"Normally I would wake up in the morning just to brush my teeth with a cannoli and say, 'Happy, great.'"

"And it's become a habit."

"The last Rambo, was, was brutal. That was a tough one."

"It's right on the, right across the Sesawi River from Burma."

"And the action films are great, like the Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy. They're fantastic."

"You see this in Beverly Hills actually."

"He's got like this beast of burden--self-imposed living in the jungle for 20 years."

"Barack Obama is ready to be President of the United States."

"Where the last war had ended, another world war could have easily begun. And all that stood in the way, was Berlin."

"Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never forget our common humanity."

"As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya."

"That Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world, and that just as Americans bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent."

"Both views miss the truth. That Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world, and that just as Americans bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent. So does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the ...

"With a President Obama, we stand on the brink of the greatest opportunity of our generation."

"George Bush, and John McCain at his side, promised to spread freedom. But they delivered the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"North Korea can build more bombs, and Iran is defiantly chasing one."

"Not just bombs and guns."

"John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama was right."

"Again and again, on the most important national security issues of our time, John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama has been proven right."

"With Barack Obama as our president, they’ll look at us again, they’ll trust us again, and we’ll be able to lead again."

"I am truly honored to live in a country with the bravest warriors in the world."

"When I got knocked down by guys bigger than me, and this is the god's truth, she sent me back out and said bloody their nose so you could walk down the street the next day."

"Cause the bottomline, in all of this, is playing football."

"Because, I'd be killed."

"Their only chance that they're ever going to date is like I slip on a bar of soap and break my neck or fall down a flight of steps."

"I'm in a body cast."

"You know, it?s kind of like that brother-in-law who drives a flashy new car, but he?s always borrowing money from you to make the payments."

"And it's a bum deal."

"But when we pay billions for planes that won?t fly, billions for tanks that won?t fire, and billions for systems that won?t work, 'that old dog won?t hunt.'"

"Lloyd Bentsen understands America. From the barrio to the boardroom, he knows how to bring us together, by regions, by economics, and by example. And he?s already beaten George Bush once."

"And he's already beaten George Bush once."

"Who is articulate and bright and, and clean."

"Well, because we did so well the first year."

"I have things a little bit better in hand I think."

"The other girls are very busy being beautiful."

"Because the rest of the girls were really beautiful girls."

"I had an absolute ball making it."

"My leg was just out of a cast."

"In spite of John McCain’s past record of open mindedness on the climate crisis, he has apparently now allowed his party to browbeat him into abandoning his support of mandatory caps on global warming pollution."

"To President Bill Clinton, who made last night, the case for change as only he can make it."

"America, we are better than these last eight years."

"And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party."

"She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life."

"It is on behalf of them that I intend to win this election."

"The fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper."

"John McCain likes to say that he will follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell, but he won't even follow him to the cave where he lives."

"God bless you. And God bless the United States of America."

"It was such a beautiful thing."

"But I can't understand how--why a basketball guy would be here."

"I've been a very blessed person throughout my life."

"I've been blessed here in California."

"Baseball all the years until I came here, which is still my favorite sport."

"I've just been, been, been, been so blessed."

"And then it's only after death that I'll be, be with Nellie again, out yonder. I'll be with her, but after death."

"Thoughts of absence from my dear ones, brought a melancholy tear once and a dreadful, dreadful fear of when my fins."

"It will probably blow your mind."

"Well sure we want to keep the Blue Flies healthy also."

"You go into every game and you be prepared for the good points and the bad points. And you can't let it bother you because next week you just gotta start over again cause these guys are looking up to you."

"It's better than I was last year."

"We put ourself in that position. If you want to play this position you got to be ready for, the boos, the cheers, the blame. And it's true that the two guys that get the most blame on the team is the head coach and the quarterback."

"Blue, whatever, blue 58, blue 96, whatever, that doesn't mean anything."

"He's an awesome bundle of joy."

"The federal government, and, and again the extreme environmentalists are not allowing us to uphold our end of the bargain."

"I'm doing The Today Show tomorrow morning, so I got about a three hour break here."

"If your car was broken down along the road you had a flat or something you needed a tire iron whatever."

"Well neither guy got 50%. But Bush beat out Kerry."

"But Bush beat out Kerry."

"Thank you for that. Why don't you put that in the blood stream again?"

"After all this, billions of dollars she's spent on this campaign and we got a worse impression of her than she is?"

"You don't see a big beefy alternative to Hillary Clinton. A big guy."

"What's he call it? Um, bareback mounting. That's his name for the movie."

"We're not going to fight it out for the next 30 years to see who the big shit, I'm sorry I mean the big name is."

"But obviously by saying this on CNBC the other night she's made a big story here."

"Referring to the terrorists as swarthy Muslim beasts."

"This is the moment to give our children back their future."

"Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe?"

"Summer baseball up in Alaska, nothing could be finer."

?He is uniquely suited to be my partner as we work to put our country back on track.?

?Now I could stand here and recite a list of Senator Biden's achievements, because he is one of the finest public servants of our time.?

?But first I want to talk to you about the character of the man who will be standing next to me.?

?His family didn't have much money.?

?Joe Sr. worked different jobs, from cleaning boilers to selling cars, sometimes moving in with the in-laws or working weekends to make ends meet.?

?But he raised his family with a strong commitment to work and to family; to the Catholic faith and to the belief that in America, you can make it if you try.?

?It might be hard to believe when you hear him talk now, but as a child Joe Biden had a terrible stutter.?

?They called him 'Bu-bu-Biden.'?

?But he picked himself up, worked harder than the other guy, and got elected to the Senate - a young man with a family and a seemingly limitless future.?

?Joe's wife Neilia and their little girl Naomi were killed in a car accident, and their two boys were badly hurt.?

?When Joe was sworn in as a Senator, there was no ceremony in the Capitol - instead, he was standing by his sons in the hospital room where they were recovering.?

?Here's how Joe Biden responded. He never moved to Washington.?

?Instead, night after night, week after week, year after year, he returned home to Wilmington on a lonely Amtrak train when his Senate business was done.?

?He raised his boys - first as a single dad, then alongside his wonderful wife Jill, who works as a teacher. ?

?He had a beautiful daughter.?

?Now his children are grown and Joe is blessed with five grandchildren.?

?He instilled in them such a sense of public service that his son, Beau, who is now Delaware's Attorney General, is getting ready to deploy to Iraq.?

?And he still takes that train back to Wilmington every night.?

?Out of the heartbreak of that unspeakable accident, he did more than become a Senator - he raised a family.?

?That is the measure of the man who is going to be the next Vice President of the United States of America. That is the character of Joe Biden.?

?Now, years later, Senator Biden would face another brush with death when he had a brain aneurysm.?

?On the way to the hospital, they didn't think he was going to make it.?

?They gave him slim odds to recover. But he did. He beat it. And he came back stronger than before.?

?Maybe it's this resilience - this insistence on overcoming adversity - that accounts for Joe Biden's work in the Senate.?

?Time and again, he has made a difference for the people across this country who work long hours and face long odds.?

?This working class kid from Scranton and Washington has always been a friend to the underdog, and all who seek a safer and more prosperous America to live their dreams and raise their families.?

?Year after year, Joe Biden has been at the forefront of the fight for judges who respect the fundamental rights and liberties of the American people; college tuition that is affordable for all; equal pay for women and a rising minimum wage for all; and family leave policies that value work and family.?

?Those are the priorities of a man whose work reflects his life and his values.?

?Joe Biden passed laws to lock down chemical weapons, and led the push to bring Europe's newest democracies into NATO.?