Joe Biden

It was time for American troops to leave the U.S., to end this so called forever war.

The U.S. would not have responsibility for what happened after this, that we`ve been there long enough that it wasn`t our goal to nation state, and that the Afghani people and government and military needs to take care of themselves.

The Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped, as well-equipped as any army in the world -- and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.

We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build. Nearly 20 years of experience has shown us that the current security situation only confirms that just one more year fighting in Afghanistan is not a solution but a recipe for being there…

How many more? How many thousands more Americans` daughters and sons are you willing to risk? How long would you have them stay? Already, we have members of our military, whose parents fought in Afghanistan 20 years ago. Would you send…

Starting this month, we`re going to begin to relocate -- we`re going to begin relocation flights for Afghanistan SIV applicants and their families who choose to leave. We have a point person in the White House and at the State…

The President of the United States stood up and denounced the 1619 Project and then passed an executive order.

The United States cannot afford to remain tethered to policies, creating a response to the world as it was 20 years ago. We need to meet the threats where they are today.

Let me ask those who want to us stay. How many more -- how many thousands more Americans, daughters and sons, are you willing to risk? How long would you have them stay? Already we have members of our military whose parents fought in…

Experts in Wall Street, analysts have said that we`ll create millions of good-paying jobs for years and decades to come, not just in the near term.

As I said in April, the United States did what we went to do in Afghanistan, to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and deliver justice to Osama bin Laden, and to degrade the terrorist threat to keep Afghanistan from becoming a base…

The funds that have already been allocated with the American Jobs Plan need to go to every city in every state across the country.

Now, we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and off times door to door literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.

We need a lot more information but it`s been very worrisome about the state of Haiti.

What I want to talk to you about today is the human infrastructure to truly build an economy from the bottom up in the middle out, to truly deal everybody in this time. We need to invest in our people. Why American families plan to the…

I pointed out to him that we have significant cyber capability. And he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if, in fact, they violate these basic norms, we will respond with cyber. He knows, in the cyber…

I will deliver it to him.

This woman here, hang on to her, man.

We need a lot more information. But it`s just -- he said, it`s -- it`s very worrisome.

She knows what she`s doing.

Mitch McConnell loves our programs. You see what Mitch McConnell said?

The likelihood that there is going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.

Please get vaccinated now. It works. It’s free. It’s never been easier. And it’s never been more important. Do it now, for yourself and the people you care about, for your neighborhood for your country. It sounds corny, but it’s a…

If you`re vaccinated, you`re protected. But if you`re unvaccinated, you`re not. And you`re putting yourself more importantly, maybe from your perspective, your family and your friends at risk.

This was not descent. This was disorder. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive, a sad reminder that there was nothing guaranteed about our democracy.