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.'

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

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

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

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.'

In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

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.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

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.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

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.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

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

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.

Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

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.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

'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.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

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