Quotes / Joe Biden

Quotes made by Biden

"This is a big fucking deal!"

— Biden applying a Precision F-Strike on the passage of the Affordable Care Act, 2010

"I believe history will look back at this presidency as an aberrant moment in time. But if Donald Hump…Donald Trump is re-elected…Freudian Slip!"

— Biden at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention having a Freudian Slip and lampshading it thereafter.

"...And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most under qualified person since George Bush to seek the presidency, is here - talking about any of the people here. Rudy Giuliani. I mean think about it, Rudy Giuliani, there's only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun and a verb and 9/11 and I mean, there's nothing else. There's nothing else."

— Biden on Rudy Giuliani during the 2007 Democratic debates.

"But, I found that it wasn't too long into John's duties that Jill and I got married. Jill is here with me today. Five years, I had been a single dad and no man deserves one great love, let alone two. And I met Jill. It changed my life. She fell in love with him and he with her. He'd always call her, as Lindsey would travel with her, Jilly. Matter of fact, when they got bored being with me on these trips, I remember in Greece, he said, ‘Why don't I take Jill for dinner?’ Later, I would learn they are at a cafe at the port and he has her dancing on top of a cement table drinking uzo. Not a joke. Jilly. Right, Jilly?"

"But we got to know each other well and he loved my son Beau and my son Hunt. As a young man, he came up to my house and he came up to Wilmington and out of this grew a great friendship that transcended whatever political differences we had or later developed because, above all, above all, we understood the same thing. All politics is personal. It's all about trust. I trusted John with my life and I would and I think he would trust me with his. And as our life progressed, we learned more, there are times when life can be so cruel, pain so blinding it's hard to see anything else."

"The disease that took John's life took our mutual friend’s, Teddy [Kennedy]’s life, the exact same disease nine years ago, a couple days ago, and three years ago, took my beautiful son Beau's life. It's brutal. It's relentless. It's unforgiving. And it takes so much from those we love and from the families who love them that in order to survive, we have to remember how they lived, not how they died. I carry with me an image of Beau, sitting out in a little lake we live on, starting a motor on an old boat and smiling away. Not the last days. I’m sure Vickie Kennedy has her own image, looking, seeing Teddy looking so alive in a sailboat, out in the Cape. For the family, for the family, you will all find your own images, whether it's remembering his smile, his laugh or that touch in the shoulder or running his hand down your cheek. Or, just feeling like someone is looking, turn and see him just smiling at you, from a distance, just looking at you. Or when you saw the pure joy the moment he was about to take the stage on the Senate floor and start a fight."

— Excerpts from Biden's eulogy for Senator John McCain, 2018

"Will you shut up, man?"

— Biden to Trump during the 2020 election

"My son, like a lot of Americans, had a drug problem. But he's overcome it. He's gotten better. He's defeated it. And I'm proud of him. I'm proud of my son."

— Biden when Trump brought up Hunter Biden's cocaine addiction.

"No one fucks with a Biden."

— Biden to Fort Meyers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy

"Roy, the podium is yours. I'm going to be fine with your jokes, but I'm not sure about...Dark Brandon."

— Biden to Roy Wood Jr., White House Correspondents’ Association 2023