On Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” Vice President Joe Biden stated, “I wish that we’d stop talking about how — what trouble we’re in. This — we are in a better position than any country in the world to own the 21st century.”

Biden said, “I — the American people, they never bend. They never break. They’re generous. And I wish that we’d stop talking about how — what trouble we’re in. This — we are in a better position than any country in the world to own the 21st century. We really are.”

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