Joe Biden

The Biden economic plan is working.

It was in 2009, in the beginning of the Obama administration, when they did an Afghan review, that Vice President Joe Biden stood up and said, no, it`s time to go.

The public broadly supports this, even if they`re getting hit left and right by members of Congress

I signed in the law the American Rescue Plan, an historic piece of legislation.

The only way we’re going to end this war is by pulling U.S. forces out.

I don’t think this is sustainable.

The idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens.

If you aren’t going to fight COVID-19, at least get out of the way of everyone else who’s trying.

The events we’re seeing now are sadly proof that no amount of military force would ever deliver a stable, united, and secure Afghanistan.

We will continue to support the Afghan people. We will lead with our diplomacy, our international influence, and our humanitarian aid.

Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland.

I will not pass this responsibly on --- responsible down to a fifth president. I will not mislead the American people by claiming a just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference, nor will I shrink from my share of…

I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces. That’s why we’re still there. We were clear eyed about the risks. We plan for every contingency. But I…

I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference, nor will I shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here. I…

When I came into office, I inherited a deal the President Trump negotiated with the Taliban.

The developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.

The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometime without trying to fight. America`s troops cannot and should not be…

Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be a nation building. I am President of the United States of America. And the buck stops with me. I`m deeply saddened by the facts we now face. But I do not regret my decision to end…

I signed in the law the American Rescue Plan, an historic piece of legislation.

He has known for more than 12 years that we didn`t have a mission we could achieve, that we were putting too many lives at risk, that we were spending too much money, and that the resources would be better spent elsewhere.

The public broadly supports this, even if they`re getting hit left and right by members of Congress, et cetera, and that the newspapers, she points out, may bear that out.

The Biden economic plan is working.

I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth president.

American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.

If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.