Joe Biden Quotes
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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.
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In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
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Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
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We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.
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When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
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I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.
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I was not an activist.
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People ask if I can compete with the money of Hillary and Barack. I hope at the end of the day, they can compete with my ideas and my experience.
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My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
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A convicted felon who had strong family ties, a stake in the community, and an education might get probation, while a man who had few family ties, little stake in the community, and little education might draw a ten-year sentence for the same crime.
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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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?
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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.
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When seagull droppings landed on my head at a campaign event at Bowers Beach two days before Election Day, I chose to read it as a sign of a coming success.
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No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.
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I learned later that the surgeon who put Dole back together after he was so badly injured in World War II was an Armenian whose family had deep memories of the genocidal campaign the Turks had waged against them.
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It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.
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No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.
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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.
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I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'
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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
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Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
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Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.