Joe Biden Quotes

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

I was not an activist.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I'm joking, I'm joking. Best decision I ever made.

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.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

To start to look more focused on the good that's been done and can be done.

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

You know whether you have a real relationship with the president when you know it's real.

We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."

Drug prices are a problem. Access is a problem.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.

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?

I didn't deserve to be president just based on the Richter scale of 'Was I tough enough and did I understand the process?'

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the greatest existential threat to U.S. interests.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

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

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I don't expect the government to solve my problems, but at least I expect them to understand it.

I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe.

The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.

Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.

I was part of the journey of a remarkable man [Barack Obama] who did remarkable things.