Joe Biden Quotes

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country dow...

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosex...

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It...

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the ...

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are w...

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

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promis...

the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) 'to remember waht got us this far and how we got here -- m...

614246"... in an airport in '64, Goldwater said, 'Well, keep punching, Hubert' during a chance meeti...

1983:To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether w...

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my ri...

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 ...

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights a...

We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think... Our f...

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program rep...

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines,...

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

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

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the in...

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

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American hist...

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead...

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both fe...

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

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're p...

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or you...

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and th...

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

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some da...

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

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

Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I beli...

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

quoting from Neil Kinnock, running against Thatcher in 1987:Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand...

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

We all know - or at least we are told continuously - that we are a divided people. And we know there...

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

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn ...

Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings:How should a judge go about finding the law? The only ...

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved wit...

The conservatives could sneer about "social engineering" if they wanted, but I thought that most peo...

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integr...