Biden: ‘I’m leaving, but I’m not going to be quiet’

Vice President Biden said late Wednesday that he plans to stay involved in politics after he leaves the White House.

“I’m leaving, but I’m not going to be quiet,” Biden said, speaking at a private fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to Politico.

Biden also said during the event that the country needs Democrats “as much now as it has since … maybe … since I held public office.”

{mosads}”The worst sin of all is the abuse of power,” the vice president said.

On the subject of ObamaCare, Biden said Republicans are going to “inherit the wind” regarding their efforts to repeal President Obama’s signature healthcare legislation.

Biden said he sees “enormous challenge and enormous opportunity ahead” for Democrats, “as long as we don’t forget who we are.” 

Democrats though, needs to start communicating in “plain, spoken communications to the regular people,” Biden said.

“We are never going to give up on the poor or disadvantage, or give up on our progressive values,” he said. “But people are scared.”

After the vice president leaves the White House, he plans to continue his efforts on the “cancer moonshot” and to work out of the University of Pennsylvania on foreign policy.

He said on Wednesday, however, that he’ll be on hand to “do anything I can to help from the sidelines.”