It will require middle–class taxes to go up, not down. — Joe Biden

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. — Joe Biden

You’re looking at a middle–class guy. I am who I am. — Joe Biden

Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it’s time we just ask. — Joe Biden

The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three–letter word: Jobs. J–O–B–S. — Joe Biden

Look, John’s last–minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number–one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three–letter word: jobs. J–O–B–S, jobs.” — Joe Biden

When the middle class does well, everybody does well. the economy expands, just give them a fighting chance. — 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

Presidential campaigns are now talking about spending $2 billion, $2 billion, the simple truth is we can’t have a government that fights for the middle class if it is owned by the big money. — Joe Biden

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it’s the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don’t speak enough to their legitimate concerns. — Joe Biden

The president has a big stick. — Joe Biden

They’re all capable of being president. — Joe Biden

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States. — Joe Biden

It’s easy being vice president–you don’t have to do anything. — Joe Biden

No, because everyone knows i’m close with joe rospars, i don’t need an president barack obama endorsement. — Joe Biden

You know whether you have a real relationship with the president when you know it’s real. — Joe Biden

I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you.” (April 26th 2012) — Joe Biden

Not one single one, and so i have no comment except the president should start to be( the) the president. — Joe Biden

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally. — Joe Biden

It has been the most shameful thing that any president has done in modern history in terms of foreign policy. — Joe Biden

There’s never been A day in the last four years I’ve been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day. — Joe Biden

Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.”––Joe Biden, Aug. 22, 2012″ — Joe Biden

I met with them and then they went off up on the hill when i was vice president. — Joe Biden

President donald trump’d like to get foreign help to win elections. — Joe Biden

Wealthy people understand we’re one America, and we do best when we’re all together. — Joe Biden

We don’t want two–tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens. — Joe Biden

America doesn’t have health insurance. — Joe Biden

John mccain’s impact on america is not over, it is not hyperbole. it is not over. i don’t think it’s even close. — Joe Biden

I did not oppose busing in america, what i opposed is busing ordered by the department of education, that’s what i opposed. — Joe Biden

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. — Joe Biden

America, everybody thinks it’s all about what the numbers say. — Joe Biden

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America. — Joe Biden

It’s overwhelmingly in the self–interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel. — Joe Biden

Judge [Samuel Alito], there’s a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution. — 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

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. — Joe Biden

We can’t be divided by race, religion, by tribe, in america, everybody gets a shot. — Joe Biden

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it. — Joe Biden

I am not going to discuss that. that is just my personal life. — Joe Biden

Life is a matter of really tough choices. — Joe Biden

The strong women in my life are angry––they get angry about things. that has nothing to do with it. — Joe Biden

I’ve been with these guys my whole life, these are the guys that brung me to the dance, as the saying goes. — 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

We’re not only seatmates. we’re soulmates, and we’re friends, not only did he get me elected, he and peatsy stood by me at both the happiest and saddest times of my life. — 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

He’s the bully that i knew my whole life. he’s the bully that i’ve always stood up to. — Joe Biden

I have never, ever, ever in my entire life had a circumstance where i have felt uncomfortable in the black community. — Joe Biden

This isn’t about me, it’s a tactic that’s used by this president to try to hijack an election so we do not focus on the issues that matter in our lives. — Joe Biden

Donald trump inherited a growing economy from the obama–biden administration, just like he inherited everything in his life, and now he’s squandering it, just like he squandered everything he inherited in his life. — Joe Biden

And since our country’s founding, we’ve tried to keep government’s heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves. — Joe Biden

There’s no political point worth my son’s life. — Joe Biden

We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future. — Joe Biden

Come on. i mean, what is this ? is this a fantasy world here ? — Joe Biden

It’s the greatest city in the world, and it requires a 21st–century infrastructure. — 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

I’m clearly not as smart as trump, the smartest man in the world, but i have a relatively high iq. — Joe Biden

We are on the verge of resurgence, if we are wise, america is not only back, it is leading the world again. — Joe Biden

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. — Joe Biden

To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they’re–they will be a partner. — Joe Biden

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world. — Joe Biden

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. — Joe Biden

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

I’ve been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from–our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles. — Joe Biden

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them. — Joe Biden

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‘You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.’ — Joe Biden

The reason why the rest of the world in large part has repaired to us is not the example of our power, but the power of our example. — Joe Biden

I’ve learned a long time ago, you don’t say anything for absolutely certain. — Joe Biden

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. — Joe Biden

I agree that everybody once they––anyway, my time is up. i’m sorry. — Joe Biden

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You’re president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have. — Joe Biden

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time. — Joe Biden

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time — Joe Biden

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart. — Joe Biden

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama. — Joe Biden

This is no time for donald trumps record of hysteria and xenophobia––hysterical xenophobia––and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science. — Joe Biden

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view–a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time. — 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

We should not be starting from scratch. we should be building from what we have. there’s no time to wait. — Joe Biden

Most of the drama doesn’t come to our dinner table. we talk about what my kids are doing––his grandkids––my brother’s three kids, my sister, we talk about the family, most of the time it’s not about politics. — Joe Biden

You have to start now deciding who you’re going to have background checks done on as vice presidential candidates and it takes time. — Joe Biden

Mr president, it’s long past time you called it out: it’s hatred pure and simple fueled by rhetoric that’s so divisive it’s causing people to die. — Joe Biden

I don’t regret not running in the sense that it was the right decision for my boy, for me, for my family at the time, but do i regret not being president? yes. — Joe Biden

I looked at them and said : i’m leaving in six hours, if the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. well, son of a bitch. he got fired. and they put in place someone who was solid at the time. — Joe Biden

This is not personal. it has nothing to do with you, donald trump, nothing to do with you, do your job. stop personalizing everything. — Joe Biden

I would be surprised if Donald Trump got elected. — Joe Biden

To compare him to donald trump, i think, is absolutely bizarre. — Joe Biden

Trump is going to tell us over and over again the economy is on the ballot this year. — Joe Biden

Donald trump is the only president who has decided not to represent the whole country. donald trump has donald trump base. — Joe Biden

Look at donald trump and look at me and answer the question, it’s self–evident, you know it’s a ridiculous assertion on donald trump part. — Joe Biden

No, we always can renegotiate everything we have to make it better, but not the way( president donald trump in style) is going about this. — Joe Biden

If you send me out of here with a victory that’s significant then i think i’m going to be the next nominee, we really can’t afford to let donald trump have four more years. — Joe Biden

Let me issue a warning right now to anyone who participates in the corrupt giveaways of president trump and his administration. — Joe Biden

Because we know how important it is to beat president trump. — Joe Biden

Above all else we must defeat donald trump period and stop his abuse of power. — Joe Biden

I learned, number one, that donald trump doesn’t want me to be the nominee. that’s pretty clear. — Joe Biden

When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], “face” he meant “persona. — Joe Biden

President trump iran strategy is president trump iran strategy, by walking away from diplomacy, president trump has made military conflict more likely. another war in middle east is the last thing we need. — Joe Biden

Donald trump and Joe Biden asked me if i ‘d like to debate this gentleman, and i said ‘ no. ‘ i said, ‘ if we were in high school, i ‘d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. — Joe Biden

It’s just wrong, how can you run against donald trump when you have, what is it, 10, 12, 14 ndas ? — Joe Biden

We’ve already had five, just this year, five black transgender women killed violently in 2019––that’s outrageous. it must, it must, it must end, and the fastest way to end it is, end the trump administration. — Joe Biden