Quotes by Joe Biden

About Joe Biden:

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is an American politician who is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, jointly elected twice with President Barack Obama, and in office since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden represented Delaware as a United States Senator from 1973 until becoming Vice President in 2009.
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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 ...

Joe Biden

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

Joe Biden

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

Joe Biden

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

Joe Biden

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

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The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

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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.

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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 h...

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In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

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The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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

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In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.

Joe Biden

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.'

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Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

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

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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.

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

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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire gene...

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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.

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

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Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoe Biden
  • Description47th Vice President of the United States
  • AliasesJoseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
  • BornNovember 20, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer