Joe Biden

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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.

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

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.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.