Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

If you are a United States senator and are not under indictment or in detoxification, you automatically consider yourself as a potential candidate for the Presidency.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Every senator I know would like to be President. The question is do they want to run to be President.

Anybody having a chance to become President usually tries to do so.

I formed a great desire to help you be president of the United States. It has seemed to me that if I could perform some service for you that would land you in the Presidency I could perform as great a service for my country as I could perform on the battlefield.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

I have presidential size policy ambition. I just don't have presidencial size personal ambition.

Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.

I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.

I thought I'd be president of the United States.