Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the underlying foundation for growth: energy, transportation, health and sanitation, and communication.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Don't be content with things as they are.