Remarks to the United States Embassy Community in Shanghai
10/18/2001
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We are heartbroken by the loss of life and the agony so many are feeling.
seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many.
Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.
We learned that bravery is more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death.