My heart aches for you. I know this. We have a continued obligation, a sacred obligation to all of you, families of those heroes. That obligation is not temporary, it lasts forever. The lives we lost today were lives given in the service…

Look, I know of no conflict as a student of history, no conflict where, when a war was ended, one side was able to guarantee that everyone they wanted to be extracted from that country would get out.

We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will not let them stop our mission. We will continue the evacuation.

These American service members who gave their lives -- it`s an overused word, but it`s totally appropriate-- they were heroes.

This mission was extraordinarily dangerous, and why I have been so determined to limit the duration of this mission.

To fight a war that we had already won relative to the reason why we went in the first place. I have never been of the view that we should be sacrificing American lives to try to establish a Democratic government in Afghanistan.

We will respond with force and precision at our time at the place we choose and the moment of our choosing.

We will hunt you down and we will make you pay.

We are, also, keeping a close watch on any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport, including from the ISIS affiliates in Afghanistan who were released from prison when the prisons were emptied. And because they are, by the…

We will find you, we will hunt you down. We will not forgive, we will not forget.

Here`s what you need to know, these ISIS terrorists will not win. We will rescue the Americans. We will get our Afghan allies. And our mission will go on. America will not be intimidated.

Our interests in going was to prevent al Qaeda from reemerging, first to get bin Laden, wipe out al Qaeda and Afghanistan, prevent that from happening again.

The mission there being performed is dangerous, and has -- now has come with significant loss of American personnel. And -- but it`s a worthy mission, because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. We will…

What America says matters. What we say we’re going to do and the context in which we say we’re going to do it, that we do it—unless something exceptional changes.

I have the utmost confidence in our brave service members who continue to execute this mission with courage and honor to save lives and get Americans, our partners, our Afghan allies out of Afghanistan.

The lives we lost today were lives given in the service of liberty, the service of security, in the service of others, in the service of America.

I bear responsibility for fundamentally all this happened of late. The reason why there were no attacks in Americans, as you said, from the date until I came in office, was because the commitment was made by President Trump, I will be out…

I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that`s happened of late.