Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

All members will refrain in their international relations from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

...In practice it is found that International Law is always on the side of strong battalions...It is puerile...to apply to the dealings of a nation with its neighbor's territory the morality which would be applicable to two individuals possessing adjoining property, and protected from mutual wrong by a law superior to both.

Serbia must now be dealt with.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

The rogue states have to be told that there are lines that cannot be crossed.

Peace in Syria is not only our priority; it's a Middle Eastern priority, and when the Middle East is stable, the rest of the world is stable, because the Middle East is the heart of the world geographically and geopolitically, and Syria is the heart of the Middle East geographically and geopolitically.

After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.