You know, we've proven we don't have to choose between protecting the environment and growing the economy. We're doing both. But powerful forces want… - Joe Biden

The only way I survived, the only way I got through it, was by staying busy and keeping my mind, when it can be, focused on my job.

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.

We succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan over a decade ago, then we stayed for another decade. It was time to end this war. This is a new world. The terror threat has metastasized across the world, well beyond Afghanistan. We face threats from al-Shabab in Somalia, al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria and the Arabian Peninsula, and ISIS attempting to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and establishing affiliates across Africa and Asia. The fundamental obligation of a president, in my opinion, is to defend and protect America. Not against threats of 2001, but against the threats of 2021 and tomorrow. That is the guiding principle behind my decisions about Afghanistan. I simply do not believe that the safety and security of America is enhanced by continuing to deploy thousands of American troops and spending billions of dollars a year in Afghanistan. But I also know that the threat from terrorism continues in its pernicious and evil nature. But it’s changed, expanded to other countries. Our strategy has to change too.