Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Bill Clinton’s only experience with foreign policy is the fact that he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

The President has rarely leisure to give close or continuous attention to foreign policy.

I’ve had foreign policy experience as governor of Texas—with Mexico.

Some critics complain that Gary Hart doesn't have any experience in foreign policy. But that's not true. Why, just yesterday he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

The Republicans would like to be the co-pilots in the foreign policy take-offs as well as in the crash landings.

[George W. Bush is] … the most dangerous President in my lifetime.

And distasteful as this matter is, I must say bluntly that every piece of scientific evidence we have, every lesson of history and experience, indicates that a Republican victory tomorrow would mean that Richard Nixon would probably be president of this country within the next four years…. I say frankly, as a citizen more than a candidate, that I recoil at the prospect of Mr. Nixon as custodian of this nation’s future

A President who wants to focus on domestic affairs must put foreign policy in a framework that Americans understand and that makes them feel secure.

When it comes to foreign policy, the American people will ultimately reward not the party with the most ambitious vision but the party with the most sober and realistic one.

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

This is not going to be decided by public opinion polls. It is a national security issue.

The State of Israel does not have the time for you to learn.

That is where American foreign policy begins—with the interest, the aspirations, and the values of the American people.