Joe Biden

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

You can tell a lot about a person by listening to the way they talk about someone they once loved.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.