Joe Biden Quotes

“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.”