Joe Biden

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

I believe the measure of a man isn’t just the road he’s traveled; it’s the choices he’s made along the way.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

Marx analysed what was happening in a quite brilliant way, if we are investing in infrastructure then we the public should get the benefit of it.

It’s a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

We need to be very careful. Democracy is the issue, and democracy ought to be the means by which we decide these issues, rather than secret negotiations resulting in a fait accompli being presented to us.

I will continue – as Labour Leader – to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

Take, say, the NYT or the Washington Post. They have dual functions and they’re contradictory. One function is to subdue the great beast. But another function is to let their audience, which is an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what’s going on in the world.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The fightback now of our party gathers speed and gathers pace.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?