110+ Joe Biden Quotes (Advocacy, Leadership And Compassion)

Joe Biden is the current Vice President of the United States. He was elected in the 2020 election alongside President-elect Joe Biden. Biden served as Vice President under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

Top 10 Joe Biden Quotes

1. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
2. A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.
3. Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
4. America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.
5. If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
6. Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.
7. No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights
8. 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.
9. Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time
10. I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

Joe Biden Short Quotes

• This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
• The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.
• Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.
• Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.
• I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
• It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.
• I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.
• The one place that David is equal to Goliath is in the Supreme Court.
• The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
• How I learned to love the New World Order.

Joe Biden Famous Quotes And Sayings

Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward. — Joe Biden

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. — Joe Biden

There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later. — Joe Biden

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. — Joe Biden

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

I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up. — Joe Biden

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. — Joe Biden

I am a Catholic. I can't say that without pointing out that I oppose abortion with all my heart and soul. Bill Clinton wanted them safe and rare. Barack Obama is heartsick that so many people he knows have had abortions. But we're all pro-choice and believe in reproductive freedom and oppose the Republicans' War on Women. — Joe Biden

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door. — Joe Biden

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better. — Joe Biden

We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside. — Joe Biden

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. — Joe Biden

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President! — Joe Biden

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling. — Joe Biden

I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. — Joe Biden

There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?. — Joe Biden

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be. — Joe Biden

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things. — Joe Biden

The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S. — 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. — Joe Biden

There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day. — Joe Biden

I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian. — Joe Biden

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought. — Joe Biden

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years. — Joe Biden

His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul. — Joe Biden

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. — Joe Biden

It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am. — Joe Biden

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. — Joe Biden

I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too. — Joe Biden

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. — Joe Biden

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind. — Joe Biden

It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores. — Joe Biden

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had. — Joe Biden

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. — Joe Biden

For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful. — Joe Biden

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' — Joe Biden

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity. — Joe Biden

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line. — Joe Biden

The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq. — Joe Biden

There's no political point worth my son's life. — Joe Biden

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. — Joe Biden

Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from Syria, to Iraq, to Iran, Ukraine, no matter where it is. I just think it is totally counter to our tradition. — Joe Biden

One of my roles as vice president is to - is to be an interlocutor with the Senate and the House because everybody up there knows I respect them and I enjoy it. And I have a lot of good friends on both sides of the aisle up there. — Joe Biden

There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing. — Joe Biden

If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not. — Joe Biden

This is a big f...ing deal! — Joe Biden

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. — Joe Biden

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. — Joe Biden

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive. — Joe Biden

You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. — Joe Biden

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it. — Joe Biden

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference. — Joe Biden

I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway. — Joe Biden

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good. — Joe Biden

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. — Joe Biden

This Administration [of Barack Obama] favors a pluralistic world and respects cultural differences, so it's wrong for the West and American elitists to judge how women are treated under Sharia. I'm going too long on all this, but I choke up on the President's legacy of reaching out to the Muslim world. It's an emotional thing. — Joe Biden

You guys at Fox can't seem to get your facts straight. — Joe Biden

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers. — Joe Biden

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? — Joe Biden

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive. — Joe Biden

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party. — Joe Biden

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades. — Joe Biden

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment. — Joe Biden

We were never motorheads. We knew fast cars. We knew how to siphon gas - me - charge the battery when it was down. But never hot-wired a car. — Joe Biden

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful. — Joe Biden

I don`t know what Donal Trump motive is but I know what he`s preaching is a very, very dangerous brew for America. Is this just a guy doing Celebrity Apprentice for himself? Is this just a guy who`s an entertainer? It may have started there but I now think he wants to be president. Also, I don`t think there`s much chance of that. — Joe Biden

Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. — Joe Biden

They're just beginning to change - Drug companies. — Joe Biden

It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting. — Joe Biden

Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden

When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona." — Joe Biden

There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with. — Joe Biden

The president has a big stick. — Joe Biden

The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions. — Joe Biden

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues. — Joe Biden

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels. — Joe Biden

I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home. — Joe Biden

The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through. — Joe Biden

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. — Joe Biden

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak. — Joe Biden

Should we have border security there? Yes. But the idea of the United States erecting a wall for the world to see makes a lie of everything we say about ourselves. It's a little bit like why the President [Barack Obama] and I feel so strongly about closing Guantanamo. It is inconsistent with who we are. — Joe Biden

After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world. — Joe Biden

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting. — Joe Biden

I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe. — Joe Biden

The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture. — Joe Biden

I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep. — Joe Biden

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

It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region. — Joe Biden

Life Lessons by Joe Biden

1. Joe Biden has demonstrated the importance of resilience and hard work, having overcome personal tragedy and political defeats to become the Vice President of the United States.
2. He has also shown the power of bipartisanship, having worked with both Democrats and Republicans to pass legislation and create meaningful change.
3. Finally, he has demonstrated the importance of compassion and empathy in leadership, having advocated for the rights of marginalized groups and championed causes that benefit the greater good.