Joe Biden

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.