Words matter. These are the best Joe Biden Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Except for the title ‘father,’ there is no title, including ‘vice president,’ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.
No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.
There’s no political point worth my son’s life.
Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.
I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.
Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.
I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.
The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.
You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator – just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.
I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
The American people have not become heartless.
In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn’t be hunting. If you can’t get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn’t be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.
It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.
I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor’s races, is it’s all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that – in that district or that state is.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.
You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‘You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.’
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.
In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.
No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
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