Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.