Quotes from Joe Biden

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

The American people have not become heartless.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

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

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.