Joseph Biden actually said...
Look, in closing, as we gather here tonight, the image of a violent mob assaulting this Capitol, desecrating our democracy remain vivid in all our minds. Lives were put at risk, many of your lives. Lives were lost. Extraordinary courage was summoned. The insurrection was an existential crisis. A test of whether our democracy could survive, and it did. But the struggle is far from over. The question of whether a democracy will long endure is both ancient and urgent, as old as our republic, still vital today. Can our democracy deliver on its promise that all of us created equal in the image of God have chances to live lives of dignity, respect, and possibility? Can our democracy deliver the most -- to the most pressing needs of our people? America's adversaries the autocrats of the world are betting we can't. I promise you they're betting we can't. They believe we're too full of anger and division and rage. They look at the images of the mobs that assaulted the Capitol as proof that the sun is setting on American democracy. But they're wrong. You know it. I know it. But we have to prove them wrong. We have to prove democracy still works, that our government still works, and we can deliver for our people. In another era when our democracy was tested, Franklin Roosevelt reminded us in America we do our part. We all do our part. That's all I'm asking, that we do our part, all of us. If we do that, we will meet the challenge of the age by proving democracy is doable and strong. Autocrats will not win the future. We will. America will. Folks, as I told every world leader I've ever met with over the years, it's never, ever, ever been a good bet to bet against America and it still isn't. We are the United States of America. There is not a single thing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity. We can do whatever we set our mind to if we do it together. So let's begin to get together. God bless you all and may God protect our troops.
04/27/2021