Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017, and as the United States Senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009. This Joe Biden quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Joe Biden Quotes
- “No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights” ~ Joe Biden
- “I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.” ~ Joe Biden
- “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black” ~ Joe Biden
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“When you’re appealing to people’s fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.” ~ Joe Biden
- “The next person that tells me I’m not religious, I’m going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.” ~ Joe Biden Quotes
- “Every single morning since I’ve been 27 years old, I’ve got up and someone’s handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I’m gonna do. I don’t know what to do if I didn’t have that card.” ~ Joe Biden
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“It’s easy being vice president – you don’t have to do anything.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Make sure of two things. Be careful – microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don’t put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.” ~ Joe Biden
- “There’s never been A day in the last four years I’ve been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.” ~ Joe Biden
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“Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: “We got to prevent dis from happening again. “~ Joe Biden
- “Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I get a lot of credit I don’t deserve.” ~ Joe Biden
- “The reason I’m a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone’s entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.” ~ Joe Biden
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“How I learned to love the New World Order.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Mr. Trump’s a good man, but he doesn’t know much about the health care system.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.” ~ Joe Biden
- “For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.” ~ Joe Biden
- “In presidential campaign, I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” ~ Joe Biden
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“Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” ~ Joe Biden
- “The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I once said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he’s a real Indian.” ~ Joe Biden
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“You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.” ~ Joe Biden
- “In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” ~ Joe Biden
- “His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she’s… wait… your mom’s still… your mom’s still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.” ~ Joe Biden
- “If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink, it’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn’t make you a man. It makes you a coward.” ~ 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.” ~ Joe Biden
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“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can’t control their bodies.” ~ Joe Biden
- “We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.” ~ Joe Biden
- “In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.” ~ Joe Biden Quotes
- “If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.” ~ Joe Biden
- “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!” ~ Joe Biden
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“I believe the measure of a man isn’t just the road he’s traveled; it’s the choices he’s made along the way.” ~ Joe Biden
- “There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.” ~ Joe Biden
- “There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.” ~ Joe Biden
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“Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time” ~ Joe Biden
- “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first-rate.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.” ~ Joe Biden
- “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.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I am a Catholic. I can’t say that without pointing out that I oppose abortion with all my heart and soul. Bill Clinton wanted them safe and rare. Barack Obama is heartsick that so many people he knows have had abortions. But we’re all pro-choice and believe in reproductive freedom and oppose the Republicans’ War on Women.” ~ Joe Biden
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“Barack and I see a future… where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.” ~ Joe Biden
- “When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That’s when it will change.” ~ Joe Biden
- “I am very optimistic about – about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.” ~ Joe Biden Quotes
- “We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are – you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty. We have all these things.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” ~ Joe Biden
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“I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid.” ~ Joe Biden
- “My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn’t how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.” ~ Joe Biden
- “You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!” ~ Joe Biden
- “The public has moved beyond politicians. For example, I’m not worried about them repealing protections for the LGBT community, because the public is beyond that. I’m not worried about them being able to change the way in which we have reached out and provided many more opportunities for women. And I – but here’s what does concern me. What concerns me is that they will make some judgments in the foreign policy area, without having thought it through that may cause a lot of problems.” ~ Joe Biden
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“Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.” ~ Joe Biden
- “We take care of those who are grieving, and when that’s finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.” ~ Joe Biden
- “Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion-dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.” ~ Joe Biden Quotes
- “No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.” ~ Joe Biden
- “It’s why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party “acted like terrorists” and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a “smartass.” And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S.” I’m proud of who I am.” ~ Joe Biden
- “America’s leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.” ~ Joe Biden