Yes. But look, I'm a great respecter of fate. Fate has intervened in my life many, many times. If I'm in the health I'm in now, if I'm in good health, then in fact, I would run again.

No, I don't think it's a failure. I think it's a -- you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, I've ordered a half a billion of the pills -- 500 million pills -- excuse me, 500…

It's been considered, but the recommendation I've gotten is, it is not necessary.

This is not Christmas last year and it's not the beginning of the pandemic because of vaccinations.

Sure, it was possible, and it is possible there could be other variants that come along.

How did we get it wrong? Nobody saw it coming. Nobody in the whole world saw it coming.

The QAnon and the extreme elements of the Republican Party and what Donald Trump keeps sort of, seems to me, feeding -- with the big lie, it makes it awful hard.

I still think there's a possibility to Build Back Better done.

Booster shots provide the strongest protection. Unfortunately, we still have tens of millions of people who are eligible for the booster shot who would have not yet gotten it. Just another day, former President Trump announced he had…

the most important thing, as the president said today, is that vaccines and booster work.

Another question that folks are asking is, are we going back to March 2020? Not last March 2021, but March 2020 when the pandemic first hit. That’s what I keep getting asked. The answer is absolutely no, no. This is not arch of 2020, 200…

It is possible there could be other variants that come along. It’s possible.

We`ll see some fully vaccinated people get COVID potentially in large numbers. Vaccinated people who get COVID may get ill, but they`re protected from severe illness and death. If you`re not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be…

Look, the unvaccinated are responsible for their own choices. But those choices of ensure by dangerous misinformation on cable TV and social media. These companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and allowing…

Imagine being a parent looking at a child, and you can’t afford. You have no house to borrow against. You have no savings. It’s wrong. But all the things in that bill are going to reduce prices and costs for middle-class and working-class…

I want to start by acknowledging how tired, worried and frustrated I know you are. I know how you’re feeling. For many of you, this will be the first or even the second Christmas where you look across the table and there will be empty…

It’s important to impart because Joe Biden promised that he would govern in -- to an America that was diverse.

But the alarm bell going off, I don't think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.

We should all be concerned about omicron, but not panicked. And no, this is not March of 2020. Two hundred million people are fully vaccinated. We're prepared. We know more. We just have to stay focused.

Senator Manchin and I are going to get something done.

On Saturday, the Senate confirmed his 40th federal judicial nominee, the most since Ronald Reagan 40 years ago.

I got my booster shot as soon as they were available. And just the other day, former President Trump announced he had gotten his booster shot. It may be one of the few things he and I agree on.

I still think there’s a possibility of getting Build Back Better done.

It is possible they may live again, may, being the operative word.

there is no Joe Biden as President if it’s not for Clyburn, for South Carolina and for black voters.