516 Quotes by Joe Biden

Reality has a way of intruding.

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.

I wasn’t built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.

When one of your loved ones goes out of your life, you think what he might have done with a few more years,” Joe Sr. had written to his friend. “And you wonder what you are going to do with the rest of yours. Then one day, because there is a world.

Never tell a man what his interests are. Be straight and open with him about your own interests. And try to put yourself in his shoes. Try to understand his hopes and his limitations, and never insist that he do something you know he cannot.

Israel has no better friend than Joe Biden.

This can happen again. This is happening in other parts of the world now. And you have to speak out. You can’t remain silent. Silence is complicity.

The only way I survived, the only way I got through it, was by staying busy and keeping my mind, when it can be, focused on my job.