Quotes By Joe Biden

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

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

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

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

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.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

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.

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

I was not an activist.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

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.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

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.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

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 he sought, he would earn on his own.

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.

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.'

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.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.