Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

They have been waiting for eight years to tell me that I am a war criminal and now they do it.

My government believes that those who commit crimes against humanity should be brought to justice.

Until now, when powerful men committed crimes against humanity, they knew that as long as they remained powerful, no earthly court could judge them.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal court has some guts and charges white war criminals. They need to face justice just like other war criminals.

Institutions can eventually overcome all the legal barriers erected to shield perpetrators of crimes against humanity Justice was finally done where it needed to be done – in Argentina itself.

The United States normally punishes war crimes as such only if their committed by enemy nationals.

No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors, and brought to justice.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

The prohibitions of international law are largely toothless, especially when the abusive governments remain in power. The international community has established criminal tribunals to try abusers, but those who remain in power are ordinarily shielded from prosecution by their governments and its protection.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.

The thing that's most uppermost in my mind and will continue to be until I hit a brick wall is that I am dead serious, dead serious about going after George Bush, trying to get him into an American courtroom and prosecute him for what happened in Iraq.

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.