Joe Biden Quotes - Page 3

I've learned a long time ago, you don't say anything for absolutely certain.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

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

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

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.

What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward.

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view.

Do not tell me your values​​. Just give me pocket money, I would say how much you are worth

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

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.

You know, the eleven million people living in the shadows, I believe, they're already American citizens... These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard alone eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

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

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

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.'

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.