Joseph Biden Quotes (105 Quotes)

We can't keep the peace in Iraq anymore than the Iraqis want it. We can't want it more than they want it. And if they don't step up to the ball, we're going to be gone.

rivals in the bureaucracy, both inferior and superior to him.

It's time the president leveled with the American people, because no foreign policy can be sustained without the informed consent of the American people, ... They have not been informed of that fact.

September 11 indicated our country is vulnerable, ... The thing we remain the least vulnerable to is an ICBM attack from another nation.

. . . once we decided to focus on Iraq, we went to war too soon. We went without the rest of the world, and we went under false premises.

The idea that he doesn't know the process of how to clear intelligence, I find mind-boggling.

I'd go after him. I know the White House isn't going to like having me say this, but I think that if Butler is able to make the case ... that there is any pattern that's in place here, I would go ahead and I would try to get folks out of there and I would bomb him, ... Fox News Sunday.

If we do not act ... by the time the snow falls next winter, there will be genocide documented on a large scale in Kosovo.

not a shared burden.

They have squandered about every opportunity to get it right. The bottom line is they are significantly lowering expectations.

They know they have to make changes. They both said, 'Give us some time.

Ask any of the people making over 360 grand, would they forgo one year of the 10 years beginning in 2005 in order to win this I've not found anybody who's said no, ... Fox News Sunday.

I think we can stop them from having a nuclear weapon, short of war.

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

DOJ (Department of Justice) has told us repeatedly that there's a formal response working its way through red tape channels, but still nothing,

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

This was all about whether or not those who had access to intelligence information in this administration used it appropriately, not just whether or not the agency was right.

Biden asked Rice to tell him how many, in her opinion, have been fully trained. Tell us how many of those folks you think -- you think, ... And for God's sake, don't listen to (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld, he doesn't know what in the hell he's talking about in this.

Is the announcement of our intent to withdraw from the ABM treaty a real action, or is it a White House Christmas present for the right wing who dislikes arms control under any circumstances,

We need a strong voice in New York who knows the U.N. and who can advance our reform agenda. But we don't need a voice which people may not be inclined to listen to, ... And I fear that, knowing your reputation -- and your reputation known well at the U.N. -- people will be inclined to tune you out.

If, at the time the United States withdraws its combat forces the Europeans all pull out, it is going to be a very difficult sell in the United States of America,

does not appear to share the same expansive view of fundamental rights of previous nominees I have supported. I'm unwilling to take the constitutional risk at this moment in the court's history.

The question is whether we trade dictatorship for chaos.

I believe the federal government should stamp out discrimination wherever - wherever - it occurs, ... If I look only at what you've said and written. . . . I would have to vote no. You dismissed the constitutional protection of privacy as, quote, 'a so-called right.' . . . You dismissed gender discrimination as...'merely a perceived problem.'

To begin within, I'm only talking about 30 million, 40 million sum total for a year ... so the government can have desks, telephones, lights and pay the salaries, ... We are trying to assess what is needed over the next five or 10 years. I think that number is between 10 billion and 15 billion countrywide.

Over the last three months of campaigning for chairman, he stressed no compromise on issues. When he declared last month that I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, ... organizational skills.

If we do not enforce that, with the world along with us, then what we do is we make a mockery of the efficacy of the U.N. in the future,

The new Violence Against Women Act provides a comprehensive approach to combating domestic violence and sexual assault, ... It stiffens penalties for repeat offenders, provides more money for vital services and will help battered women get the assistance and support they need. It also focuses on breaking the cycle of violence through education and helping rural victims in under-served areas.

This seems to me to be the perfect ploy for Saddam Hussein, ... Late Edition.

I'm sure the argument will be why are we nit-picking, but what I want to do at a minimum in the debate is lay out what I understand what the president's committing to do,

That will require the ( President George W. Bush administration) not to stay the course, but to change course, and to do it now.

In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Biden referred to the escape of Dwayne Fitzen, a drug dealer who had been in the transfer program, but fled and is now considered armed and dangerous ... comprehend the rationale for this program.

We quite frankly have no policy now there is no policy. I would not call it benign neglect I would call it malign neglect.

I look forward to working with Gen. Powell and President-elect Bush in a bipartisan manner to ensure that America's foreign policy objectives are met.

We all operated on bad information. But the only ones who took the information that was most questionable and asserted it as fact were the administration.

Why aren't they asking for it They don't know We already know it's going to cost at least a minimum of 60 billion to keep the troops there,

This may be the most significant vote any of us cast this year, in terms of America's security interests.

The administration has got to get its act together. Don't give me this amorphous malarkey about we'll stay there until the job is done.

I have no idea. I have not had one single senator on the committee tell me how they are going to vote on the Democratic side.

Abortion prohibition by a state controls women and denies them full autonomy and full quality of men, it would be unconstitutional.

Eliminating these weapons of mass destruction would make Americans more secure and the world a safer place.

The degree of difficulty has been exponentially increased by Katrina.

The Bush administration was right to reverse course on North Korea and stop letting ideology get in the way of results.

He is absolutely, totally, completely honest -- his main contribution is his legislative political integrity -- and that's a big deal.

That's malarkey, ... You are obliged to comment. That's your judgment we're looking at. ... We're looking for candor.

People are going to have to make choices. How it all plays out I'm not smart enough to know, but I'm worried.

Hey, boss, it's not going that well. Hey, boss, read a little history.

We need a civilian commitment in Iraq equal to our military one.

The sooner we make security the top agenda item, and utilize sufficient American and international resources to achieve it, the faster we can help Iraqis improve their lives and bring home our troops.

All his experts have said to him as well as me it would take three years to do that, ... He didn't say that he was going to take up France and Germany on their offer to train them in Europe. He didn't say he was going to speed up the training in Arab nations where Americans have trained Arab forces.