Joe Biden Quotes: On January 20, 2021, at age 78, Biden became the oldest president in history. Biden is 46th president of the United States after thirty-six years in the Senate and eight years as vice president. Biden grew to love and respect the traditions and hierarchy of the institution, playing leading roles on both the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee.
Biden Foundation, the Biden Cancer Initiative, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, and the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware, are Biden’s efforts to expand opportunity for every American.
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“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”
“You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.”
“Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.”
“I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: “We got to prevent dis from happening again.”
“Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do.”
“I get a lot of credit I don’t deserve.”
“I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid.”
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.”
A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do, and thinks it still matters.
“In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.”
“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.”
“You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.”
“The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good .”
“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.”
“It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.”
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over the common community.”
“If you do politics the right way, I believe. You can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.”
“In this world, emotion has become suspect. The accepted style is smooth, antiseptic, and passionless.”
“No nation should threaten its neighbours by massing troops along the border.”
“If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.”
“How I learned to love the New World Order.”
“A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do, and thinks it still matters.”
“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”
“I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can’t control their bodies.”
“For me, when I think about climate change, I think jobs.”
“The climate crisis is not our fight alone, either. It’s a global fight.”
“It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.”
“I know what I believe, I know what I want to do. And I’m just comfortable saying it and laying it out there.”
“War should always be the absolute last resort.”
“ Fear never builds the future but hope does.”
“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.”
“We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.”
“We need to ensure greater equity and opportunity for women. Let’s get the Paycheck Fairness Act to my desk for equal pay. It’s long past time.”
“The consensus is if we act, we can save the planet — and we can create millions of jobs and economic growth and opportunity to raise the standard of living for everyone in the world.”
“The reason I’m a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone’s entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.”
“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.”
“His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she’s… wait… your mom’s still… your mom’s still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.”
“Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink, it’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn’t make you a man. It makes you a coward.”
“We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.”
“In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.”
“If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.”
“Mr. Trump’s a good man, but he doesn’t know much about the health care system.”
“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.”
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.”
“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
“I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black.”
“When you’re appealing to people’s fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.”
“The next person that tells me I’m not religious, I’m going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.”
“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.”
“Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There’s never been A day in the last four years I’ve been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.”
“In presidential campaign, I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.”
“Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.”
“Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.”
“I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”
“The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.”
“I once said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he’s a real Indian.”
Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.”
“I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.”
“I am a Catholic. I can’t say that without pointing out that I oppose abortion with all my heart and soul. Bill Clinton wanted them safe and rare. Barack Obama is heartsick that so many people he knows have had abortions. But we’re all pro-choice and believe in reproductive freedom and oppose the Republicans’ War on Women.”
“Barack and I see a future… where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.”
“When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That’s when it will change.”
“I am very optimistic about – about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”
“We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are – you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty. We have all these things.”
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
We take care of those who are grieving, and when that’s finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.”
“Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion-dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.”
“No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.”
“It’s why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party “acted like terrorists” and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a “smartass.” And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S.” I’m proud of who I am.”
“America’s leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.”
“My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn’t how many times or how hard he got knocked down but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.”
“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!”
“The public has moved beyond politicians. For example, I’m not worried about them repealing protections for the LGBT community, because the public is beyond that. I’m not worried about them being able to change the way in which we have reached out and provided many more opportunities for women. And I – but here’s what does concern me. What concerns me is that they will make some judgments in the foreign policy area, without having thought it through that may cause a lot of problems.”