Quotes from Joe Biden

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

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

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

You know whether you have a real relationship with the president when you know it's real.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.

In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.

You've all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character - one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.