The Best and Worst of Joe Biden

Vice-President Joe Biden

On GOP complaints that the health care bill is 2,022 pages long: ''Put yourself in their spot. Just ask Sarah. That's a hell of a lot to write on the palm of your hand.''

''You all know St. Patrick is credited with banishing snakes from Ireland. But you guys know the truth, sometimes. There were never any snakes in Ireland. St. Patrick just made that up. Which explains why he's the patron saint of FOX News.''

On the recovery act: ''Republicans keep saying it hasn't created a single job. Well, tell that to Senator Scott Brown.''

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking."

 "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened."  Apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008

"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."

"This is a big f*&%$@g deal!" Caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." –Referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007

"If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong."