Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

Alliances do have to deal with political realities.

Progress is impossible as long as nations emphasize their grievances and de-emphasize their opportunities.

I'm sure they can grin and bear it for a week. After all it's for world peace.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

When a rising power confronts a ruling power, bad things usually happen.... This is what happens when an extablished entity faces an upstart.... To avoid a disasterous clash like war, both parties have to make an adjustment, but the ruling power has to make more painful adjustments.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

Coming from a smaller nation in Central Europe, I have learned pretty soon how important are agreed rules, cooperation, respect for partners and, most of all, willingness to listen and find common solutions.

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts.

They put aside the talk of peace and instead acted for peace.

Americans tend to go for it all. In international politics you can’t have it all. You have to compromise.

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

The United States sits down with her enemies because they have some semblance of power.