Joe Biden

The main thing I want to make clear to all of you is we`re providing any help for you that you are going to need.

I want to thank our commanders and men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled in the early morning hours of August 31st Kabul time with no further loss of American lives.

The longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as ISIS-K.

We are currently on pace to finish by August the 31st. The sooner we can finish, the better. Each day of operations brings added risk to our troops.

I urge all Americans to join me in grateful prayer tonight for three things.

It was the unanimous recommendation of the joint chiefs and of all of our commanders on the ground to end our airlift mission as planned.

I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled in the early morning hours of August 31st Kabul time, with no further loss of American…

There's no such thing as a low-grade, low-risk way to stay in a country that ain't yours, and stay there with people who -- in a culture that ain't yours.

I refused to send another generation of America's sons and daughters to fight a war that should have ended long ago.

Let me be clear. Any American who wants to come home, we will get you home.

I made the right decision.

We have to end this. We cannot send another generation of Americans into this country to die.

I will not repeat the mistake we have made in the past, the mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely.

We made mistakes. This is not a great victory for American foreign policy, and American policy -- and American policy. But let us never forget what happened, even if it’s painful.

The United States would find those responsible and make them pay

We will find you, we will make you pay.

Let me begin by once again acknowledging the bravery and the sacrifice that our military makes every single day. And the loss of those Americans and Marines and sailor and army personnel, is tragic. But look, the mission there being…

The mission there being performed is dangerous, and it is now, it`s come with a 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`ve…

The President made very clear yesterday, is that they`re going to find these people and basically take them out, right?

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

For those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this, we will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.

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.

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