Joe Biden quotes

Joe Biden

"Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people."
Joe Biden
Attitude Alone Future People
"If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment."
Joe Biden
You More Deer Embarrassment
"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.'"
Joe Biden
Respect Community Job Dignity
"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."
Joe Biden
Long World Home Opportunity
"The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on."
Joe Biden
Change Real Climate Climate Change
"Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything."
Joe Biden
Reality Way Everything Eventually
"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
Man Always Measure Of A Man Dad
"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."
Joe Biden
America Never Will Stand
"Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests."
Joe Biden
Crazy Nothing Enough American
"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 generations. It scares away investments and jobs."
Joe Biden
Faith Democracy Talent Corruption
"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
Morning Feet Lucky Person
"Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart."
Joe Biden
Time Smart Looking Just
"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable."
Joe Biden
Life Failure Your Giving Point
"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.'"
Joe Biden
Look Greed Talk Stock Market
"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."
Joe Biden
Work Good Peace Vision
"ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening."
Joe Biden
America Serious Something Someone
"The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good."
Joe Biden
Good Gift Focus Bad
"Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security."
Joe Biden
America Energy Security Part
"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."
Joe Biden
Change Society Government Country
"I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not."
Joe Biden
Funny Everybody Used Really
"Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism."
Joe Biden
Good Patriotism Corruption Fighting
"You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters."
Joe Biden
You Never Who Fun
"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."
Joe Biden
Know Things Down About
"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."
Joe Biden
Support Will Know Going
"Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied."
Joe Biden
Gun Tried Buy Two
"I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world."
Joe Biden
World Energy Will Doubt
"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."
Joe Biden
I Am America More Friend
"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."
Joe Biden
Man Die America Never
"If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK."
Joe Biden
President Run OK
"We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens."
Joe Biden
People Legal America Want
"I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden."
Joe Biden
Think Know Through Say
"In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president."
Joe Biden
Good Heart President Make
"Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe."
Joe Biden
Energy Europe Neighbors Become
"I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me."
Joe Biden
Me People Angry Never
"Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces."
Joe Biden
Training American Saudi Soil
"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to."
Joe Biden
Freedom World Look Free
"Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon."
Joe Biden
Think Understand Why Most
"No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean."
Joe Biden
Sometimes Problem Mean Say
"Life is a matter of really tough choices."
Joe Biden
Life Matter Life Is A Choices
"Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it."
Joe Biden
America Know Middle Class Build
"Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you."
Joe Biden
Me You People Money
"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."
Joe Biden
Country Sand Rock Think
"The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations."
Joe Biden
Support Most Off Cut
"In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless."
Joe Biden
World Style Emotion Smooth
"Corruption is just another form of tyranny."
Joe Biden
Corruption Tyranny Just Form
"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."
Joe Biden
Democracy Government Law Challenges
"Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts."
Joe Biden
Me Bond Own Against
"Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time."
Joe Biden
Long Time Long Time Friend
"We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it."
Joe Biden
America Forget Own Finish

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