Famous Quotes by Joe Biden

Joe Biden is one of the more cerebral members of the Senate, yet one of the most unjustly maligned members. His honor and intelligence have been degraded, with prejudice. Joe has amassed a library of personal quotes and speeches during his tenure as a U.S. Senator. He has been the unsullied victim of vituperation dating back to his days at university.

Before listing some of his more memorable quotes, let’s delve closers into the man, and the tribulations that have formed his unique character.

It started while he was chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee in the Senate in 1987. Biden was simultaneously running for the office of President, and heading up the Judiciary Committee during the Robert Bork confirmation hearings. It is legendary that he single handedly preserved the honor of the Supreme Court by preventing the likes of Robert Bork from contaminating the court with his radical ideology. Bork humiliated himself by stating that, as a justice on the Supreme Court, he would rule in accordance with the original intent of the Constitution. To further bolster his lack of credentials, he confessed, under oath at the hearings, that he was a law professor at Yale. Joe Biden, smelling blood, went in for the kill and astutely stated, “We have enough professors on the bench. I want someone who ran for dog catcher.” In addition to keeping radicals such as Bork off the court, he brought consistency and balance to the Judiciary Committee by deriding Bork’s and Thomas’ relations with morals and the law. Biden stated that Bork was a dangerous extremist because he denied that moral principles could override written law. To keep it balanced, Biden said that Thomas was a dangerous extremist because he affirmed that principles could override the written law.

While Joe was perniciously eradicating what character Bork had left, and trying to balance that with running for the presidency, he was forced to withdraw from the presidential race. His crime? Some silly misunderstanding over a plagiarized stump speech. So Joe had plagiarized a speech by Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labour Party. I personally believe this was unfair to Joe. Keeping people like Bork off the bench, and trying to run a presidential campaign is more than any mortal can handle. I thought it was ingenious of Biden to borrow a speech here and there. There just weren’t enough hours in the day to do it all, then sit down and try and write a speech. There are plenty of speeches floating around out there not being used. Joe did this Kinnock fellow a favor.

At the same time, it was revealed that Joe had plagiarized a law review article he wrote while at Syracuse Law School. He received an F in the class, but was allowed to take it over. Once again, where can a mortal get the time to do all things.? As Joe stated in his defense in front of the review board at Syracuse, “Is not imitation the best form of flattery.” That Joe, what a character.

To add insult to injury, it was also revealed, that as an undergraduate, his grades consisted of C’s and D’s. But no one wants to give Joe credit for the two A’s he received in Physical Education. They only wanted to focus on the negative. Joe also had a lifelong dream of heading the Arms Services Committee in the Senate, but the three F’s he received in ROTC were a bit of a distraction when he put in his application. According to Joe, he received three undergraduate degrees, then went on to graduate in the top half of his class in law school with a full academic scholarship. Never mind that according to Syracuse’s records he graduated 76th out of 85, and there certainly must have been a clerical error in the university only showing Joe with one degree rather than three. So what if the records of his scholarship only showed a partial scholarship for financial hardship rather than academics, Joe is a fighter and a positive thinker, and it is this type of splitting of hairs that is ripping this country apart.

Now to some of Joe’s more famous quotes. You may have heard many of these before, but did not know whom to attribute them, or were unaware that Joe produced them from the depths of his intellect.

• Give me liberty or give me death.
• I have a dream.
• Facts are stubborn things.
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
• And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
• Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.
• A penny saved is twopence clear.
• Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
• Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
• I graduated in the top half of my class.
• I have a higher IQ than you.
• I am a miner’s son.
• I don’t have an open mind.
• Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

As you can see, Joe is one smart fellow. Right after being announced by Barack Obama as the next President of these 57 United States, Joe Biden took the podium for his acceptance speech and started off like good ol’ typical Joe: “Fore score and seven years ago…..

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