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.

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

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

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

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.

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

We need to be very careful. Democracy is the issue, and democracy ought to be the means by which we decide these issues, rather than secret negotiations resulting in a fait accompli being presented to us.

We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children[‘s] … normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don’t understand.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

The Pentagon is in no sense a defense department. It has never defended the United States from anyone. It has only served to conduct aggression. And I think that the American people would be much better off without a Pentagon.

The real surprise in the [2016] election was the Sanders campaign, which broke with a long tradition of pretty much bought elections, and was stopped only by machinations of the Obama-Clinton party managers.

Eventually we’re going to get something done and it’s going to be really, really good.

GATT and NAFTA ought to be called “investor rights agreements,” not “free trade agreements.” One of their main purposes is to extend the ability of corporations to carry out market-distorting operations internally.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Let’s not turn this into blaming people who travel, work and migrate around Europe, let’s instead ensure governments respond to the needs of all communities and that unscrupulous employers that are grossly exploiting migrant workers and trying to limit their rights need to be dealt with.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Libya is divided into tribes and clans.