Joe Biden

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

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.

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

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.