Joe Biden Quotes

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.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.‘

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

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.‘

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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

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

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

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

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

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.

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.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

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.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

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.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

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

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.

The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

I was not an activist.

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

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 Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

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.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

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.

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.

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.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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

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.

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.

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

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

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

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