Joseph Robinette Biden

“ Look, folks, first of all, I want to — I want to thank you all for this — the faith community leaders getting together. And I want to thank my buddy, Cedric, for honchoing this for me and — because we both believe that you have profound influence on not only your congregations, but on the public at large. You are the community leaders. And Jill and I want to send our warmest wishes to all of you, your families, your congregations, and your communities on this — this holiday and holy season. ”

“ And 75 percent of all seniors now have received the shots, which is a drastic change and increases exponentially the prospect that they’ll live out their lives in the way they anticipated. And, you know, 100 million of those shots in fewer than nine weeks, and more every day.
And families are getting the financial relief they need so they can take a breath. I don’t know how many of you have had to carry people who have been — in your communities — because they’ve been — the food shortages — the failure — people getting thrown out of their apartments or not able to pay their mortgage. ”

“ And, by the way, I need not tell you all I come from a community that has a very large African American population, and I spent a lot of time in the Black church because it does more for my community than most anything else. And I — I don’t know — you know, I can remember discussions way back — when I was a kid getting started in public life — about how there was a distrust for — for some docs and mass vaccination things. ”