Joseph Biden Quotations | Page 2

The devil is in the details, ... It makes a great deal of difference.

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

The idea that the Senate would degenerate into a pit bull ring ... was something that each of us thought ... would reflect incredibly badly on the place we think is a big deal.

The idea that this new government can get up and running without having the close to $600 billion worth of debt that they have out there forgiven is preposterous,

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.

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.

It is time for a little grace and dignity here, ... It is time for someone to step forward and take a hit for the team. It is time for us to demonstrate that this is in fact a consequential undertaking.

It is time the president tells us how he plans on getting us out of the hole he has dug us so deeply into. And just to stop digging, as the old saying goes, is not enough. He needs to tell us what his plan is,

What's the plan, Stan? Tell us, ... We are not setting timetables and saying cut and run. We are saying give us a plan.

We have to do more to reach out and get the rest of the world in on the game,

It is unreasonable to ask the president of the United States to say that he will oppose bringing up this treaty during the duration of his presidency, ... If that's the price that has to be paid, then we'll have a vote.

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

This is your chance, judge, to explain what you mean by what you have said and what you have written.

This is your chance, judge, to explain what you meant by what you have said and what you have written.

This is your chance to explain what you meant,

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

I am not accusing them of cooking the books, ... I am accusing them of hyping--it's different.

I call that groping. It sounds like a man who is going down and decides to try to throw something to his supporters, ... Face the Nation.

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 I think he's going to be a Justice Scalia, who I like personally very much, I vote no. If I think he's going to be a Kennedy, I vote yes. If I think he's going to be a Rehnquist, I probably vote yes.

If I think he will be Justice (Antonin) Scalia ... I vote no. If he is a (Justice Anthony) Kennedy, I vote yes. If he is a Rehnquist, I probably vote yes because it won't change anything,

If he really believes that reapportionment is a questionable decision -- that is, the idea of Baker vs. Carr, one man, one vote -- then clearly, clearly, you'll find a lot of people, including me, willing to do whatever they can to keep him off the court. We don't know that. We have to hear it, ... That would include a filibuster if need be.