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. – Joe Biden
Now, people when I say that look at me and say, What are you talking about, Joe? Youre telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?. The answer is yes, thats what Im telling you. – Joe Biden
Youve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country. – Joe Biden
Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. Its you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you. – Joe Biden
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,