Mr. Biden: Is Putin ready to talk? I'm not ready to talk to Putin, unless Putin is ready to change his behavior.
[can't negotiate if one side refuses to talk]
Mr. Biden: There is an inclination on the part of the Chinese to keep in contact with me, because they're not sure where this all goes.
Mr. Biden: No one's ever going to unite that country [Afghanistan]. I've been over every inch of that; not every inch. The entirety, from the poppy fields, all the way to the north.
Mr. Biden: Most presidential historians give me credit for having accomplished more than most any president since Johnson, and maybe before that, to get major pieces of legislation passed. And what I realized was, my long time in the senate had equipped me to have the wisdom and know how to deal with the congress and get things done.
[equipped with threats and blackmail]
Mr. Biden [angrily]: More children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death. The United States of America! What the hell are we doing? What are we doing?
[that false stat counts children as nineteen and under]
Mr. Biden: Do you think our democracy is under siege base on this court [Supreme Court]? Do you think democracy is under siege based on Project 2025? Do you think he means what he says when he says he's doing to do away with the Civil Service? Eliminate the Department of Education?
Mr. Biden: Tomorrow, if all of a sudden they show up at the convention, everybody says, 'we want somebody else', that's the democratic process. It's not gonna happen [whispering]
Reporter: Respectfully, earlier you misspoke, in your opening answer, referred to [Harris] as Vice President Trump. Right now, Donald Trump is using that to mock your age and your memory. How do you combat that criticism from tonight?
Mr. Biden: Listen to him.
Something strange started happened with the sign language people beginning maybe six years ago. They started making wild, unusual movements I never saw before.