You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world,

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world,

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for,

For 30 years, it stood in the World Trade Center as a symbol for peace. On September 11, it was damaged, not destroyed.