Quotes from Joe Biden

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.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

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

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.