Top 444 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Biden - Page 3

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

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

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

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.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.

The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.

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

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

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 was not an activist.

We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.

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

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

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

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

I've been really, really fortunate.

There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

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.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.

It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.

I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.

Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.

When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.