Joe Biden

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.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

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

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

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.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can’t control their bodies.

The blacks want always Democrats … You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare … Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

To escape the impact of a well-functioning system of propaganda that bars dissent and unwanted fact while fostering lively debate within the permitted bounds is remarkably difficult.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

That government is best which governs least.

John McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Our soldiers are there (in Syria) in order to secure Russia’s interests in this critically important part of the world, which is so near to us. And they will stay there, for as long as it is in Russia’s interest for them to do so.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don’t have a country.

Europe has not been a heterogenous society to anything like the extent that the United States has. Nor has it been as mobile a society as the United States. These matters have been a bit under the cover, but they’re harder to keep under the cover.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.