Joe Biden Quotes

Stand up, Chuck, let them see you.

The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

The one place that David is equal to Goliath is in the Supreme Court.

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 is a big f...ing deal!

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

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.'

I was first in my family to go to college.

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.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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.

The president has a big stick.

A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

There's no political point worth my son's life.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

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.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

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.

I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: "We got to preven dis from hapinin agen. "

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of a senator of the United States.

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

You guys at Fox can't seem to get your facts straight.

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

All you need is a double barrel

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

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

Apologized for saying Barack Obama was clean and articulate.

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.