Joe Biden Quotes

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

I've never been called a man of few words.

They're just beginning to change - Drug companies.

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.

This Republican Kevin McCarthy makes Hillary [Clinton] the victim.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

The Turks ... the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing?

It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

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.

The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

We were never motorheads. We knew fast cars. We knew how to siphon gas - me - charge the battery when it was down. But never hot-wired a car.

Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

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.

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

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.

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.