Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.

I'm joking, I'm joking. Best decision I ever made.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.

To start to look more focused on the good that's been done and can be done.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.