Joe Biden Quotes

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

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Just
  • Tragedy

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Game
  • Effort

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Rich
  • Meaning

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Power

• I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Character

• Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

  

  Lorde
  • Changed
  • Lipstick
  • lil' nose

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Children

• 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
  • Job
  • Father
  • Community