Joe Biden Quotes:
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe Biden
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe Biden
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.
Joe Biden
Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.
Joe Biden
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Joe Biden
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.
Joe Biden
Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.
Joe Biden
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.
Joe Biden
The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.
Joe Biden
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.
Joe Biden
Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
Joe Biden
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’
Joe Biden
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Joe Biden
Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.
Joe Biden
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Joe Biden
You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.
Joe Biden
You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.
Joe Biden
The Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.
Joe Biden
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
Joe Biden
In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
Joe Biden
Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
Joe Biden
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
Joe Biden
As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.
Joe Biden
There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Joe Biden
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.
Joe Biden
There’s no political point worth my son’s life.
Joe Biden
During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Joe Biden
I was not an activist.
Joe Biden
You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
Joe Biden
I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.
Joe Biden
I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Joe Biden
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.
Joe Biden
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.
Joe Biden
It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe Biden
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
Joe Biden
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
Joe Biden
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
America doesn’t have health insurance.
Joe Biden
Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.
Joe Biden
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
Joe Biden
Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
Joe Biden
Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.
Joe Biden
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.
Joe Biden
I know I’m not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.
Joe Biden
Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
Joe Biden
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.
Joe Biden
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.
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