Joe Biden quotes

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
- Joe Biden

There’s no wall high enough to keep any virus away.
- Joe Biden

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
- Joe Biden

To all the transgender Americans watching at home — especially the young people who are so brave — I want you to know that your president has your back.
- Joe Biden

The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.
- Joe Biden

I made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation that I wasn't going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago. Our leaders did that in Vietnam when I got here as a young man. I will not do it in Afghanistan.
- Joe Biden

We have learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile. At this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed.
- Joe Biden

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.
- Joe Biden

I will defend the Constitution, our democracy, America, and I will keep everything I do in your service, thinking not of power but of possibilities, not of personal interests but of public good.
- Joe Biden

The predicaments currently facing the nation are historic. Few Americans have found a time more challenging than the time we are in now.
- Joe Biden

We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises... I believe we will, and write the next great chapter of the American story.
- Joe Biden

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 a positive environmental impact.
- Joe Biden

And today, we marked the swearing-in of the first woman in the American history elected to national office - vice president Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change.
- Joe Biden

Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and profit. Each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens, as Americans, especially as leaders ... to defend the truth and defeat the lies.
- Joe Biden

I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. I also know they are not new.
- Joe Biden

Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated, and even manufactured.
- Joe Biden

Our history has been a constant struggle between American ideal that we are all created equal and harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart.
- Joe Biden

For without unity, there's no peace, only bitterness, and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only state of chaos...this is our historic moment of crisis and challenge...unity is the path forward.
- Joe Biden

This is America’s day, this is democracy’s day, the day of history and hope. Today we celebrate a triumph, not of a candidate, but of a cause.
- Joe Biden

Uh, uh, Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up, Chuck, let ’em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about.
- Joe Biden

I am a gaffe machine. But by God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth .
- Joe Biden

You know, during World War II, Roosevelt came up with the War Production Board.
- Joe Biden

Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle 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

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, "Look, here’s what happened."
- Joe Biden

If John McCain wants to know where the bad guys live, come back with me to Afghanistan. We know where they reside, and it’s not in Iraq.
- Joe Biden