Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts,

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."