Quotes By 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.'

The American people have not become heartless.

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

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

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

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

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

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

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

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.

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

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.