Joe Biden quotes

Born
November 20, 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Occupation
President, Politician.

Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden Jr. is the 46th and current president of the United States, having been jointly elected twice with PresidentBarack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
– Joe Biden

This is a big fucking deal!
– Joe Biden

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
– Joe Biden

America doesn’t have health insurance.
– Joe Biden

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
– Joe Biden

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

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
– Joe Biden

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
– Joe Biden

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.
– Joe Biden

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
– Joe Biden

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
– Joe Biden

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
– Joe Biden

Income inequity has to be addressed.
– Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.
– Joe Biden

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.
– Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
– Joe Biden

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
– Joe Biden

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
– Joe Biden

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
– Joe Biden

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
– Joe Biden

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
– Joe Biden

My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
– Joe Biden

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
– Joe Biden

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.
– Joe Biden

Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
– Joe Biden

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.
– Joe Biden

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
– Joe Biden

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.
– Joe Biden

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
– Joe Biden

I used to say to my late wife, ‘I have great faith in the American people.’
– Joe Biden

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
– Joe Biden