Joe Biden

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

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.

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That’s when it will change.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

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.

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

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

Never read any book that is not a year old.