Press Release - Excerpt from Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President Biden to Mark One Year Since the January 6th Deadly Assault on the Capitol

And so at this moment we must decide what kind of nation we are going to be.

Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?

Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?

Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth but in the shadow of lies?

We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation.

The way forward is to recognize the truth and to live by it.