Mike Pence: “I was here, as you were, and as most of us in this institution were on the day September 11, 2001. It was a sunny day…”

“I was here, as you were, and as most of us in this institution were on the day September 11, 2001. It was a sunny day, just really very much like today. All of us were busy about our business, breakfast meetings of that Tuesday, when we received word of what happened in New York and then happened again and then happened within a proximity of these buildings that is still jarring to the memory of most Americans, the causality and the horrific tragedy at the Pentagon. So this business of homeland security is a very serious and near-to-the-heart business for me. ... I believe we are. In fact, I helped to draft the legislation that created the new Department of Homeland Security. And the first priority of that new department, the first of its kind in decades, is to protect our Nation against further terrorist attack.”