Joe Quotes

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.

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.