Joe Biden

“Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.”

“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.'”

“Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.”

“I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.”

“I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.”

“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!”

“Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.”

“America doesn't have health insurance.”

“Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.”

“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.”

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

“Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.”

“My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'”

“Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.”

“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.”

“The conservatives could sneer about "social engineering" if they wanted, but I thought that most people believed as I did that government should embody our best hopes and lend a hand to people who were struggling.”

“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.”

“you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you're running for president and what will you do when you are president. You shouldn't run until you know the answers to those questions.”

“Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.”