Quotes from Joe Biden

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.