THE ECONOMY AND FINANCE CRISIS

Joe Biden:

"We let Wall Street run wild."

"John McCain is a good man, but John McCain thought the answer is that tried and true Republican response, deregulate."

Sarah Palin:

"There is greed on Wall Street. John McCain and I have made a commitment and get rid of that corruption."

"Everyday American people, Joe six-pack, hockey moms across the nation, we need to band together and say never again will we be exploited and taken advantage."

IRAQ

Joe Biden:

"This is a fundamental difference between us, we'll end this war. For John McCain there's no end in sight to end this war. Fundamental difference. We'll end this war."

Sarah Palin:

"Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq. That is not what our troops in Iraq need to hear today, for sure."

ON MCCAIN

Sarah Palin:

"We're tired of the old politics as usual... I think that's why we need to send the maverick from the Senate and put him in the White House and I'm happy to join him there."

"Americans are cravin' that straight talk."

Joe Biden:

"He's not been a maverick on the war, not been a maverick on virtually anything that generally affects the things people really talk about around the kitchen table."

GAY COUPLES

Joe Biden:

"In an Obama-Biden administration, there's no difference between a same-sex and a heterosexual couple."

Sarah Palin:

"I want to clarify if there's any kind of suggestion at all from my answer that I would be anything but tolerant of adults in America choosing their partners, choosing relationships that they deem best for themselves.''

CLIMATE CHANGE

Joe Biden:

"We know what the cause is. The cause is man-made. That's the cause. That's why the polar ice cap is melting."

Sarah Palin:

"I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate."

"I don't want to argue about the causes."

NEGOTIATING WITH RIVALS

Joe Biden:

"John McCain said as recently as a couple weeks ago he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain. A NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now. I find that incredible."

Sarah Palin:

"For dictators that hate America for what we stand for, those who would try to destroy what we stand for, cannot be met with just sitting down on a presidential level as Barack Obama had said he would be willing to do. That is beyond bad judgment, that is dangerous."

BUSH ADMINISTRATION LEGACY

Joe Biden:

"The fact of the matter is the policy of this administration has been an abject failure."

"Past is prologue, the issue is how different is John McCain's policy going to be than George Bush's?"

Sarah Palin:

"Oh Joe, there you go pointing backwards again."

"When we talk about the Bush administration, there is a time, too, when Americans say enough is enough with your ticket on constantly looking backwards and pointing fingers and doing the blame game."

"There have been huge blunders in the war, huge blunders throughout this administration, as there are with every administration."

ON THE JOB OF VICE PRESIDENT AND THE LEGACY OF DICK CHENEY

Sarah Palin:

"I'm thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority to the vice president if he so chose to assert it working with the Senate and making sure we are assertive of the president's policies."

Joe Biden:

"Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history."

"The idea he's part of the legislative branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandise the power of an unitary executive, and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous."

WHAT IS YOUR ACHILLES HEEL?

Joe Biden:

"You're very kind suggesting my only Achilles heel is my lack of discipline. Others talk about my excessive passion."

Sarah Palin:

"My Achilles heel is that my executive experience of a huge energy-producing state counting towards much progress towards getting our nation energy independence. That's very important."

MISCELLANEOUS

Sarah Palin:

"Hey, can I call you Joe?"

Joe Biden:

"I understand what it's like to be a single parent, when my wife and daughter died and two sons gravely injured, I understand as a parent to wonder whether your kid will make it."

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