Joe Biden
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.
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that state is.
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.
As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
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.'
I've been really, really fortunate.
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.
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.
Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.
Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
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?
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.
No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.
Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
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!
I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.
One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
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.
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.
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.
No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.