Joe Biden

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

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

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.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.