07/25/2002
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"History has placed a great responsibility at our doorstep, and I will not miss this opportunity."
"A Government that is one of the most repressive Governments history has ever seen."
"And I want you to know that later on this week schools reopen in Afghanistan, and this is hard for Americans to believe, but for the first time, young girls get to go to school, thanks to America."
"We went into Afghanistan not to seek revenge but justice, and we went into that country not as conquerors but as liberators."