Joe Biden, Promises To Keep: On Life And Politics Quotes

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.