Joe Biden Quotes Page 3

“People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.”

“Poor kids are just as smart as white kids.”

“Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.”

“Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.”

“The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.”

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

“There's no political point worth my son's life.”

“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.”

“War should always be the absolute last resort.”

“We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.”

“Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!”

“You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.”

“You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.”

“You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.”

“Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they have just suffered and to help them appreciate that the legacy and accomplishments of their loved one have not died with them.”

“I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends on trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it’s awfully hard to build trust.”

“I knew from previous experience that grief is a process that respects no schedule and no timetable. I would be ready when I was ready, if I was ready, and not before. I had no idea when that would be.”

“If the problem is fear, the answer is knowledge. Each side has to be willing to try to understand the concerns of the other.”

“Never tell a man what his interests are. Be straight and open with him about your own interests. And try to put yourself in his shoes. Try to understand his hopes and his limitations, and never insist that he do something you know he cannot.”

“True bravery is when there is very little chance of winning, but you keep fighting.”

“For the world to follow, we must do more than rattle our sabers and demand allegiance to our vision simply because we believe we are right. We must provide a reason for others to aspire to that vision. And that reason must come with more than the repetition of a bumper-sticker phrase about freedom and democracy.”

“I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.”

“I thought I’d died and gone to Yale.”

“I trusted him as far as I could throw a piano.”

“I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.”

“If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.”

“My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.”

“Nobody, no group, is above others. Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they'll like what he has to say.”

“To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the moral courage, the realism, the idealism, the tenacity, and the ability to sacrifice some of the current comfort to invest in the future.”

“Folks, the United States just became the first country in the world to offer safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for kids as young as six months old.”