I'm excited to say that I firmly believe Kamala Harris is the real deal. Not only is she qualified to serve as vice president, but I do believe that she's qualified to serve as president. She has been vetted. She's undergone a lot of scrutiny. But I think she is perhaps the Vice President's [Joe Biden] best chance to the White House in 2020.

Even today, if we took mask-wearing and social distancing seriously, we could get the [SARS-CoV-2] virus under control in 4-6 weeks. And that's not just me saying it; that's people within the Trump Administration, like his Surgeon General and the head of the CDC—people that he put there.

If you're going to be in the public arena—man or woman, but particularly for women—you have to be prepared to fight for what you believe in.

The vaccine does not prevent you from getting infected with COVID-19 ... What it does hopefully prevent—and what we're seeing in studies—is that if you come into contact with that COVID-19 virus, that you won't have the most severe form [that's] leading to literally 365,000 Americans dying because your body, as soon as it sees that virus, starts to fight it off.

When we're looking at where those pharmacies and where those hospitals are actually located, they are predominantly in white communities—and when I say predominantly, I mean 60-70% of all hospitals and all pharmacies are literally located in those predominantly white communities. If you're in a black or brown community, you are two times more likely to see the closure of your hospital or there not being a pharmacy in general.

No one asked me if I was smiling while Mr. Putin was hacking the DNC. Nobody asked me if I was smiling when they began to interfere in our election. No one asked me if I was smiling when they began to put false information out there that's so confusing ... We can't smile every day. We can't smile when we are in pain. We cannot smile when our families are hurting. We cannot smile when people are suffering. No, don't ask me to smile when I'm at my job.

It has to be protest and vote. Protest alone can raise the issue. It can illustrate it and make it a stark choice, but if we don't have leaders who are going to listen, respond, and do the hard work of changing those systems, we're going to be back here in two years, three years, five years—however many years from now, and I do not want that to be the case.

Herd immunity is basically an excuse—that's what they're using it for. It's an excuse as to why—as Donald Trump was quoted as saying—they were okay with young people, and kids, and babies being infected by this virus if it meant that they can open our economy up again.

I don't believe you change hearts; I believe you change laws. You change allocation of resources. You change the way systems operate. You're not going to change every heart—you're not. But at the end of the day, we could do a whole lot to change some hearts, change some systems, and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them to live up to their own god-given potential.

Health is not just what happens when you walk in the hospital; health is actually developed in the community.

Even if Donald Trump is defeated—which I believe he will be—on November 3rd, his impact on the Republican party will last another decade plus.

Mike Pence has to get permission from his wife in order to have a meeting with another woman, so we'll see if he'll actually show up to the [vice presidential] debate.

Vice President