Quotes by Joe Biden

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldnt be playing football.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. Its because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

I know Im not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally cant breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we dont subsidize, we dont want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

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

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

We dont want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

My dad always said, Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.

“I kept seeing the little Forever Wild house, undermined by the powerful indifference of nature and the inevitability of time, no longer able to hold its ground; I could almost hear the sharp crack as its moorings failed, could envision the tide washing in and out, pulling at it relentlessly and remorselessly until it was adrift on the water, then swallowed up by the sea.”