“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates thr...” — Joe Biden Quote

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could they have. I assimilated wholeheartedly, found my parents in many ways embarrassing, and allowed my Russian to decline through neglect.

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.