Joe Biden

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

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.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

If wall street can borrow money at 0.75% interest, so can college students. We need to stop treating students as profit centers.

U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

I know words. I have the best words.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don’t indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

[on Michelle Obama] She’s fundamentally honest – goes out there, speaks her mind, jokes. She doesn’t parse her words or select them with an antenna for political correctness.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

We don’t need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

So we’re destroying the environment for organized human life. We’re threatening a terminal disaster with regular nuclear confrontations. Anybody who has looked at the record, which is shocking, would have to conclude that it’s a miracle that we’ve survived this long.