Top 444 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Biden - Page 2

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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?

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

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.

The American people have not become heartless.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

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

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

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

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

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

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.

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

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

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.

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.

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

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

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.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that state is.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

You've all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character - one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

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

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

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.

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

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

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