Quotes from Joe Biden


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


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.


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 didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.


Corruption is just another form of tyranny.


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.


In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.


No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.


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


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.


One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.


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


Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.


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


Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.


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


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.


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


Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.


My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'