Joe Biden

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

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.

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.

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

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

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist. I think that would be, maybe, going too far.

I’m a liability to them – I’m a woman, I’m empowered, I’m an artist. I’ve had executives who can’t come to my shows they’re so scared of me. I’ve been a thorn in many people’s sides just by existing.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth.

The argument that ‘boys will be boys’ actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behaviors from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

I actually trust the women I know. I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies and I trust them with their children. I trust that they are decent enough and wise enough and worthy enough to carry the right of abortion.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

There’s a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that’s been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

Women are not a special interest group. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health.

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons ‘The Apprentice’ was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights …

I’m usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women’s bodies are really beginning to piss me off.

As I grow and I get older I’m realising more and more that there’s such a beautiful, sensual power that we have as women.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I never identified with the feminist movement in a strong way. I just kind of lived it. I didn’t politicize it. I didn’t follow any written rules to what it meant to be a feminist. I had my own sense of what was right and wrong.