Quotes By Joe Biden

America doesn't have health insurance.

The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

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.

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

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

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.

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.

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.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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.

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.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

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 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.

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!

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

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.

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