In announcing her selection, Biden described his former rival as, quote, someone who understands that we are in the battle for the soul of this nation.

Our agricultural industry is a vital part of our economy and way of life, and we need to support our farmers and ranchers.

Food is the common ground that brings us together.

There is no one's opinion I valued more than Beau's.

Music has the power to bring us together, lift us up, and inspire us to be our best selves. Let's invest in our artists and musicians and ensure that everyone has access to the arts.

we're headed into a period of unity that I think Joe and Kamala have a chance to achieve.

And I think by picking Kamala Harris, he showed that. She's dynamite. She's going to be the defining story of this campaign.

look, you 25 kids, you are at an Ivy League school, but don't think you can isolate yourself from the changes in America and your responsibility to deal with it. You can't build a wall high enough. You can't make enough money. You can't do…

I have no doubt that I picked the right person to join me as the next vice president of the United States of America, and that's Senator Kamala Harris. Her story is America's story, different from mine in many particulars, but also not so…

It's a story of America today. It's the story of America of the future.

Kamala, as you all know, is smart, she's tough, she's experienced, she's a proven fighter.

I think that's a very important factor.

I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence, and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021.

Trump seeks only to inflame it with his politics of racist rhetoric and appeals to division.

Donald Trump has already started his attacks, calling Kamala -- quote -- 'nasty.' Is anyone surprised Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board? She's going to stand with me in this campaign, and all…

It's going to be gratifying to see the strong enthusiastic reaction to Senator Harris as our next Vice President.

We're at one of those inflection points, you've heard me say that before, in our history. A life-changing election for this nation and the choice, the choice we make this November is going to decide the future of America for a very, very…

Remember what it felt like to see those neo-Nazis, close your eyes, and those Klansmen, White supremacists, coming out of fields, carrying lighted torches, faces contorted, bulging veins, pouring into the streets of a historic American…

As a child of immigrants, she knows personally how immigrant families enrich our country, as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up black and Indian American in the United States of America.

Very fine people on both sides.

I was the first in my family to go to college, and it opened up a whole new world for me.

I remember studying at the library late into the night, determined to make a better life for myself.

Kamala Harris is now the first black woman on a major-party presidential ticket.

As Vice President, I think it would be wonderful to have a woman or a person of color as Vice President.

An historic day is ahead, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make their first public appearance as the Democratic ticket.