It’s been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your President. I love the job, but I love my country more. - Joe Biden

I also believe the time has come for this institution to become more inclusive so that it can better respond to the needs of today’s world. Members of the U.N. Security Council, including the United States, should consistently uphold and defend the U.N. Charter and refrain — refrain from the use of the veto, except in rare, extraordinary situations, to ensure that the Council remains credible and effective. That is also why the United States supports increasing the number of both permanent and non-permanent representatives of the Council. This includes permanent seats for those nations we’ve long supported and permanent seats for countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

It is important for Americans to see what is happening. I have been doing this for a long time.
I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children.
Downplaying Hamas’s atrocities and blaming the Jewish people is unthinkable.

And yet there was an eerie stillness on Capitol Hill — like a moment of prolonged equipoise between inhalation and exhalation.