Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she's first rate.

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

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

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.