Quotes from Joe Biden

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.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

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

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.

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.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

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

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

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

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.