35 Joe Biden’s Most Powerful Quotes on Leadership & Hope

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Joe Biden

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.
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

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
Joe Biden

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.
Joe Biden

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.
Joe Biden

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.
Joe Biden

Life is a matter of really tough choices.
Joe Biden

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
Joe Biden

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.
Joe Biden

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Joe Biden

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
Joe Biden

My dad used to have an expression – ‘It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.’
Joe Biden

If you’re in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
Joe Biden

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
Joe Biden

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Joe Biden

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.
Joe Biden

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.
Joe Biden

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.
Joe Biden

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe Biden

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.
Joe Biden

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.
Joe Biden

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

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?
Joe Biden

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
Joe Biden

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
Joe Biden

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.
Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Joe Biden

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.
Joe Biden

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Joe Biden

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