Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, like many Members in this House, in the last week I attended numerous memorials, remembrances of the tragedy of 9/11. It's particularly poignant to northern Virginia because the other attack that day was at the Pentagon, which is in Arlington, Virginia. At that time I was a local supervisor on the board of supervisors in Fairfax County, and my office was co-located at Fire Station 30 in Merrifield. And I remember firefighters in my station, men and women, backing up the Arlington Fire Department in trying to put out the fire and save lives at the Pentagon that day in the second-worst terrorist attack in American history, only sadly eclipsed by the loss of life at the World Trade Center itself. And I heard the stories and I saw the heroism firsthand, and it is something I certainly will never forget. Let me just say to the friends and families of those who were lost that day and to those who would wish us harm: America will never forget, and America will never yield.”