This is our moment to choose love over hate, hope over fear, fact over fiction. We’ll overcome this era of American darkness, together. – Joe Biden
When Donald Trump says tonight you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America, look around and ask yourself: How safe do you feel in Donald Trump’s America? – Joe Biden
America is an idea, an idea stronger than any army more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. And it’s an idea as alive and powerful today as it was when it was first proposed. – Joe Biden
The nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another Black American is a victim of excessive force…These shots pierce the soul of the nation…Equal justice has not been real for Black Americans and so many others. We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism. – Joe Biden Demanding investigation after police shot unarmed black man Jacob Blake multiple times in back in front of his children.
If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I’ll be an ally of the light, not the darkness. It’s time for us, for we the people, to come together. And make no mistake, united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in America. – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
This is our moment to make hope and history rhyme. With passion and purpose, let us begin – you and I together, one nation, under God – united in our love for America and united in our love for each other. For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. Light is more powerful than dark. This is our moment. This is our mission. May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here tonight as love and hope and light joined in the battle for the soul of the nation. – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
What we know about this president is that if he’s given four more years, he’ll be what he’s been for the last four years. A president who takes no responsibility, refuses to lead, blames others, cosies up to dictators and fan the flames of hate and division. He’ll wake up every day believing the job is all about him, never about you. Is that the America you want for you, your family and your children? – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
We’ll choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege. – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
We can choose a path of becoming angrier, less hopeful, more divided, a path of shadow and suspicion. Or, or, we can choose a different path and together take this chance to heal, to reform, to unite. A path of hope and light. – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
This is a life-changing election. It will determine what America will look like for a long, long time. Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They’re all on the ballot. Who we are as a nation, what we stand for and most importantly, who we want to be, that’s all on the ballot. – Joe Biden On 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The current President has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division. – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
History has thrust one more urgent task on us. Will we be the generation that finally wipes the stain of racism from our national character? – Joe Biden Accepting Democratic party’s U.S. presidential nomination.
Northeast Pennsylvania will be written on my heart. But Ireland will be written on my soul. – Joe Biden On his Irish roots, in letter to ancestry.com.
Donald Trump has already started his attacks, calling Kamala, quote, nasty, whining about how she is, quote, mean to his appointees. It’s not a surprise because whining is what Donald Trump does best, better than any president in American history. – Joe Biden
Is anybody surprised that Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman, or strong women across the board? – Joe Biden
Little Black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities, but today, just maybe they’re seeing themselves for the first time in a new way. – Joe Biden On his selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate in U.S. presidential race.
As a child of immigrants, she knows personally how immigrant families enrich our country. Her story is America’s story. – Joe Biden On Kamala Harris.
In Color The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening. No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed. They’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has. – Joe Biden On Donald Trump.
In Covid-19 Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID. – Joe Biden Botching the stats at campaign event in Pennsylvania, June, 2020. He then corrected himself to say 120,000. “Mortifyingly stupid” was how Trump described his remarks.
George Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’ they’ve echoed all across this nation, quite frankly around the world. For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of George Floyd I frankly think is despicable. – Joe Biden On Donald Trump invoking Floyd’s name as he took victory lap on unemployment numbers.
Peaceful protesters are dispersed by the order of the president from the doorstep of the people’s house, the White House – using tear gas and flash grenades – in order to stage a photo op at a noble church. – Joe Biden
The president is more interested in power than in principle. He thinks division helps him. This narcissism has become more important than the nation’s well-being. – Joe Biden
The president held up a Bible at St. John’s Church. I just wished he opened it once in while instead of brandishing it. If he opened it, he could have learned something. – Joe Biden
I won’t traffic in fear and division. I won’t fan the flames of hate. I’ll seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gain. I’ll do my job and I’ll take responsibility – I won’t blame others. – Joe Biden
He’s a fool. An absolute fool to talk that way. Every leading doc in the world is saying you should wear a mask when you’re in a crowd. – Joe Biden On Donald Trump’s rejection of face masks during Covid-19 outbreak.
You ever been to a caucus?…No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier. – Joe Biden To young female voter.
I should not have been so cavalier. – Joe Biden On radio comment that blacks if they voted Trump in 2020 presidential election weren’t “black.”
I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy. – Joe Biden On his quip that if blacks voted for Trump in 2020 they “ain’t black.”
In Black If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black. – Joe Biden To African-American radio host Charlamagne Tha God. His remarks were criticized for being offensive, demeaning and dumb. He later admitted he shouldn’t have been such a wise guy.