(Hillary Clinton is) very talented, very smart. She’s a friend of mine, so I’m a little prejudiced.”

“I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president or vice-president.”

“If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?”

“I think Bush is probably the worst President in the history of the United States.”

“Bush was a disaster for the country as well as for the Republican Party. Then he asked me about Barack Obama. I told him that Barack will need to be a great president because we’re in serious trouble as a country. It hasn’t been this way since 1929. So he doesn’t have much choice—he will simply have to be great, which he has a very good chance of being. What he has done is amazing. The fact that he accomplished what he has—in one year and against great odds—is truly phenomenal.”

“(Obama) doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that.”

“I am embracing the issue, and I’m proud of the issue. I think somebody has to embrace it because, frankly, the people that are – and I don’t like the name ‘birther,’ because I think it’s very unfair and I think it’s very derogatory to a lot of very good people that happen to think that there’s a possibility that this man was not born in this country, and by the way, if that were true, you know it’s very interesting, if that were true, it’d be the greatest scam in the history of this country.”

“An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud.”