We will continue to support the Afghan people. We will lead with our diplomacy, our international influence, and our humanitarian aid.

Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland.

I signed in the law the American Rescue Plan, an historic piece of legislation.

the Biden economic plan is working.

The events we’re seeing now are sadly proof that no amount of military force would ever deliver a stable, united, and secure Afghanistan.

the public broadly supports this, even if they`re getting hit left and right by members of Congress, et cetera, and that the newspapers, she points out, may bear that out.

I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference, nor will I shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here. I…

I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth president.

I will not pass this responsibly on --- responsible down to a fifth president. I will not mislead the American people by claiming a just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference, nor will I shrink from my share of…

American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.

Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to be a nation building. I am President of the United States of America. And the buck stops with me. I`m deeply saddened by the facts we now face. But I do not regret my decision to end…

The developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.

I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces. That’s why we’re still there. We were clear eyed about the risks. We plan for every contingency. But I…

I know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghan civilians sooner. Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for their country.

The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometime without trying to fight. America`s troops cannot and should not be…

Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight.

So I'm left again to ask of those who argue that we should stay. How many more generations of America's daughters and sons would you have me send the fight Afghanistan's Civil War where Afghan troops will not? How many more lives…

There are some very brave and capable Afghan Special Forces units and soldiers and if Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance of the Taliban now, there is no chance that one year, one more year, five more years, or 20 more…