Joe Biden

He does not want them to live on the Earth anymore.

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.

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`ve instructed the military, whatever they need, if they need additional force, I will grant it.

To 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.

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…

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

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

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

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

They`re real and significant challenges that we also have to take into consideration.

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…

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.

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.

Millions of Afghani citizens who are not Taliban, who did not actively cooperate with us as SIVs, who, if given a chance, may be on board a plane tomorrow.

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.

I`ve instructed the military whatever they need, if they need additional force, I will grant it.

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

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. I`ll defend our interests and our people with every measure at my…

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…

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

The mission there is (INAUDIBLE) dangerous. Now, it`s come with a significant loss of American personnel. And it`s a worthy mission as they continue to evacuate folks out of that region and out of the airport, evacuate more than 12,000…

We have a continuing obligation, a sacred obligation to all of you the families of those heroes. That obligation is not temporary. It lasts forever.

We have some sense, like many of you do, what the families of these brave heroes are feeling today. Get this feeling like you've been sucked into a black hole, the middle of your chest. There's no way out. My heart aches for you.

I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that has happened of late, no doubt is the first full blown crisis of his administration.