The rest of the world is wondering what’s going on... Eight years of this and I think we’ll have a phenomenal dislocation occur around the world. I t… - Joe Biden

The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail. They believe America — not like I believe about America. I believe America is big enough for all of us to succeed, and that is the nation we’re building: a nation where no one is left behind. I ran for President because I believed we were in a battle for the soul of this nation. I still believe that to be true. I believe the soul is the breath, the life, and the essence of who we are. The soul is what makes us “us.” The soul of America is defined by the sacred proposition that all are created equal in the image of God. That all are entitled to be treated with decency, dignity, and respect. That all deserve justice and a shot at lives of prosperity and consequence. And that democracy — democracy must be defended, for democracy makes all these things possible. Folks, and it’s up to us.

The system wasn't working, and I thought it was time to err on the side of a new model. What might work, I thought, was a system that promoted personal accountability, consistency, and certainty. Congress could say people who committed the same federal crime, under the same circumstances, were going to jail for the same amount of time. We could give judges a narrower set of sentencing guidelines to work with, and felons would be required to pay the same price. We'd be judging the crime, not the person.

The god's truth is, we are a melting pot.
It is the ultimate source of our strength, it is the ultimate source of who we are, what we've become.
It started all the way back in the late 1700s.
There's been a constant unrelenting stream of immigrants.
Not in little trickles, but in large numbers.
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He said they're in America looking for the buried black box, and I looked at him just like you're looking at me, like what's he talking about?
He said they're looking for that secret that allows America to constantly be able to remake itself, unlike any other country in the world.
I said, I can presume to tell you what's in that black box, mister president. I'm old enough now.
I said one is that there is in America an overwhelming skepticism for orthodoxy.
From the time a child, whether they're naturalized or they're native-born, they think about it, a child never gets criticized in our education system for challenging orthodoxy, for challenging the status quo.
I would argue it's unlike any other large country in the world.
There's a second thing in that black box. An unrelenting stream of immigration.
Non stop, nonstop.
Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we'll be an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolute minority.
Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock. That's not a bad thing. That's a source of our strength.