I have come to tell friends in the last couple of days that Americans have not wanted to believe that our shores would ever be in danger, for we are a free people, a people who live in peace and who want freedom and peace for the world. It is hard to believe that there are those who would use murder as their mechanism to make their point in the world. But, indeed, we have come together as a people across the country. We will adjourn not too long from now to go and pray together. The world will see a different kind of America in the days ahead. My chairman in his statement said that we will not live in fear, and, indeed, we will not. A great President of our past, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once said that the only thing we have to fear is, indeed, fear itself. ... But when our people come together, there is no Democrat, there is no Republican.
Jerry Lewis: “I have come to tell friends in the last couple of days that Americans have not wanted to believe that our shores would…”
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Addressing the nation in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
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