[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          AMERICA WILL PREVAIL

  (Mr. ALLEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Speaker, words are inadequate to express the agony we 
feel today for those who lost their lives yesterday, for their 
families, and for this country. But we will recover, rebuild and move 
on.
  In the dark days of late 1941, it was Winston Churchill, speaking for 
the Western allies, who said, ``We have not journeyed all this way 
across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains and 
across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.''
  We are not. In truth, the people of this country are big in heart and 
strong in character. We will maintain our open society and fight 
terrorism around the globe with freedom-loving peoples everywhere, and 
we will prevail.

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