Joe Biden

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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.

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.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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

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

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

What is going on right now, it is unacceptable, it is wrong. However, it must be admitted that it is the result of inaccurate regulation, that was brought in recently in the sphere of energy, in energy resources.

The U.S….will continue to defend U.S.-based corporate and financial interests while seeking to maintain a global environment in which they can flourish. That requires, in particular, that the Third World be kept in its service role.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Nobody has better respect for intelligence than Donald Trump.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‘Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.

Stability of tax policy must be absolutely guaranteed for the next six years.

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.