Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician and the president-elect of the United States. Having defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election, he will be inaugurated as the 46th president on January 20, 2021. Profoundly inspirational Joe Biden quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Joe Biden Quotes
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. Joe Biden
If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK. Joe Biden
I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not. Joe Biden
Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value. Joe Biden
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand demand demand change. Joe Biden
So I try to be mindful, at all times, of what a difference a small human gesture can make to people in need. What does it really cost to take a moment to look someone in the eye, to give him a hug, to let her know, I get it. You’re not alone? 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
The time will come when his memory will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes. Joe Biden
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self defense. It’s patriotism. Joe Biden
True bravery is when there is very little chance of winning, but you keep fighting. 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
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. 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
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self aggrandizement has been the full throated cry of this society I’ve got mine, so why don’t you get yours and What’s in it for me? 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
Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they have just suffered and to help them appreciate that the legacy and accomplishments of their loved one have not died with them. 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
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity. Joe Biden
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! Joe Biden
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. Joe Biden
Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart. Joe Biden
If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people’s lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game. Joe Biden
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on. Joe Biden
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. Joe Biden
Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from. Joe Biden
There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later. Joe Biden
You’re looking at a middle class guy. I am who I am. Joe Biden
Right now, you know, everyone one is going to be there for you. I explained. Everyone will surround you with love and you’ll be busy and have things to keep your mind off the worst. And then in six weeks, or may be twelve weeks, everybody else’s life is going to start to get back to normal. But your life isn’t going to be normal again. As a matter of fact, as you probably understand already, it’s going to get harder for you. And after a while you’re going to start feeling guilty because you’re going to be going to the same people constantly for help, or just to talk. And as their lives get back to normal, you going to start to worry about leaning on them too much. There might come a time when you think, I’m asking too much. I’ve got to stop complaining. So when you’re down and you feel guilty for burdening your family and friends, I said, pick up the phone and call me. Joe Biden
I’m not big on flak jackets and tie dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me. Joe Biden
We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future. Joe Biden
I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college. Joe Biden
Nothing we’re going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting. Joe Biden
Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything. Joe Biden
But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common. Joe Biden
The greatest gift is the ability to forget to forget the bad things and focus on the good. Joe Biden
The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour. Joe Biden
Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately. Joe Biden
To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can’t learn at the foot of any wise man Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you’ve been knocked down. 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
My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. Joe Biden
Life is a matter of really tough choices. Joe Biden
So how do I want to spend the rest of my life? I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, and I want to help change the country and the world for the better. That duty does much more than give me purpose; it gives me something to hope for. It makes me nostalgic for the future. 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 wasn’t built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong. Joe Biden
Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world. Joe Biden
Israel has no better friend than Joe Biden. 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
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. Joe Biden
No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean. 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. 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
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. Joe Biden
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other. Joe Biden
We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think. Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed before them, but rather the failure of both our great political parties to place those challenges honestly and courageously before the people, and to trust the willingness of the people to do the things that really need to be done. Joe Biden
I have Parents magazine in my home. Joe Biden
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words all men are created equal took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words equal protection and due process inevitably led to the end of the words separate but equal, ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth. Joe Biden
America doesn’t have health insurance. Joe Biden
Candor generates trust. Trust is the basis on which real change, constructive change, is made. Joe Biden
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. Joe Biden
He told Beau to go home and live like he had a future. Run for governor. Have a purpose. Almost every day after that, I found myself acting on that advice have a purpose. No matter what came at me, I held fast to my own sense of purpose. Joe Biden
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters. Joe Biden
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn’t mean I could speak for all young people. Joe Biden
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. Joe Biden
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that. Joe Biden
You know we’re going to control the insurance companies. Joe Biden
One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish to fail to understand that life is going to knock you down is to fail to understand the Irishness of life. Joe Biden
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. Joe Biden
I believe we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can. It’s mean spirited. It’s petty. And it’s gone on for much too long. I don’t believe, like some do, that it’s naïve to talk to Republicans. I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition, not our enemies. And for the sake of the country, we have to work together. Four more years of this kind of pitched battle may be more than this country can take. Joe Biden
I always wonder when it was that I was embraced. Joe Biden
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. Joe Biden
Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security. Joe Biden
Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately. Joe Biden
There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it’s not so much a good joke anymore. Everybody’s from Scranton; no one’s in Scranton. Joe Biden
I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you. Joe Biden
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. Joe Biden
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it. Joe Biden
We all know or at least we are told continuously that we are a divided people. And we know there’s a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them. Joe Biden
Corruption is a cancer a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. Joe Biden
