10/14/2001
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"As President, my most solemn responsibility is to keep the American people safe."
"Effective steps toward national reconciliation will require national leadership from all communities and expression of a common national political will, or 'vision,' that has so far been lacking."
"All of these efforts... are designed to set the conditions for U.S. troops to begin coming home."
"Al Qaida in Iraq has sworn allegiance to Usama bin Laden."