At the height of the Watergate scandal, Joe Biden said Democrats were “more immoral” than Republicans.

“Let me say for the record clearly, clearly Democrats are as immoral as Republicans, if not more immoral in some of the big cities, a great deal more immoral in the traditional sense,” the 30-year-old Delaware senator said at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio, which released an audio recording of the event this year. “But as a practical matter, politicians as a whole, in my opinion, having practicing law for four years, are a good deal more moral than lawyers as a whole, or doctors or businessmen.”