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.
— Joe Biden
We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
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.
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.
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'
I love that Cadillac ATS!
I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Income inequity has to be addressed.
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.
Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
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.
If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.
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.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
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.
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.
People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.
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.
'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.
Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.
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.'
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
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.'
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.
I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
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.
Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
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!
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?
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.
