Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

I don't know what's best for other people.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that's perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I'm getting into.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

There was a time my parents never listened to me. They wouldn't have forced me into marriage had they heard me out. But now, they support me.

I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.

It's not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I've had into my own destiny over the years.

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

Know your power.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.