Joseph Biden Quotes on Government (7 Quotes)

If the European countries that are there in Bosnia now all decide to pull out ... when we take out the land forces, I think it will make it very difficult to get the vote to expand NATO in the Senate.

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,

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

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.

I believe the federal government should stamp out discrimination wherever - wherever - it occurs, ... If I look only at what you've said and written. . . . I would have to vote no. You dismissed the constitutional protection of privacy as, quote, 'a so-called right.' . . . You dismissed gender discrimination as...'merely a perceived problem.'

To begin within, I'm only talking about 30 million, 40 million sum total for a year ... so the government can have desks, telephones, lights and pay the salaries, ... We are trying to assess what is needed over the next five or 10 years. I think that number is between 10 billion and 15 billion countrywide.