Joe Biden

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

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.’

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

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.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man’s crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.