--- title: Biden on Being a Veep: "Isn't That a B***h?" description: Mark this down as another "Biden being Biden" moment. canonical: https://time.com/3461071/biden-veep/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-03T13:35:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:34:18.283Z article:section: Politics og:title: Biden on Being a Veep: "Isn't That a B***h?" og:description: Mark this down as another "Biden being Biden" moment. og:url: https://time.com/3461071/biden-veep/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e3cbf1a33820d0/6986a6d0adae4411db545510/joe-biden.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 44th Annual Legislative Conference - Day 1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Biden on Being a Veep: "Isn't That a B***h?" twitter:description: Mark this down as another "Biden being Biden" moment. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e3cbf1a33820d0/6986a6d0adae4411db545510/joe-biden.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Biden on Being a Veep: 'Isn't That a B---h?' by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Oct 3, 2014 1:35 PM UTC  Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the CBC Spouses 17th Annual Celebration of Leadership in Fine Arts at the Nuseum Museum on September 24, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the CBC Spouses 17th Annual Celebration of Leadership in Fine Arts at the Nuseum Museum on September 24, 2014 in Washington, D.C.Earl Gibson III—Getty Images by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Oct 3, 2014 1:35 PM UTC Mark this down as another “Biden being Biden” moment. On Thursday night, a questioner at the Harvard Institute of Politics identified himself as the vice president of the student body. A smiling Vice President Joe Biden then remarked, “Isn’t that a b\*\*\*h?” “I mean . . . excuse me. The vice president thing,” he said, according to [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/02/politics/joe-biden-vp-remark/index.html?hpt=po%5Fc2). Biden added: “I’m joking, I’m joking, I’m joking. Best decision I ever made. I’m joking—that was a joke.” The student replied that he hopes Biden loves his job. “I do, actually. I love the guy I work with,” Biden said. The comments came during a forum on foreign policy. Biden ran for President in 1988 and 2008 and has left the door open for another run in 2016. \[[_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/02/politics/joe-biden-vp-remark/index.html?hpt=po%5Fc2)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3461071/biden-veep/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3461071/biden-veep/"},"headline":"Biden on Being a Veep: 'Isn't That a B---h?'","datePublished":"2014-10-03T13:35:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:34:18.283Z","description":"Add another to your list of Bidenisms","url":"https://time.com/3461071/biden-veep/","keywords":["Joe Biden","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e3cbf1a33820d0/6986a6d0adae4411db545510/joe-biden.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e3cbf1a33820d0/6986a6d0adae4411db545510/joe-biden.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"44th Annual Legislative Conference - Day 1","caption":"44th Annual Legislative Conference - Day 1","creditText":"Earl Gibson III—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3461071/biden-veep/","name":"Biden on Being a Veep: 'Isn't That a B---h?'"}}]}] ```