Sept 11 Quotes

• Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, America, September 11

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  September 11, Together, Remember

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• Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Sadness, Fire Burning

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, September 11

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Numbers, September 11, Bears

  "New York's Governor And Mayor of New York City Address Concerns of the Damage". News conference, New York, transcripts.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Support, Enemy

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• One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

  George W. Bush

  Powerful, Hero, Sacrifice

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• The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, America, Muslim Faith

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.

  Ted Olson

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Thinking, Validation

  "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

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• I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Enron Scandal, White

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• I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

  Jon Ronson

  Way, Kind, Happened

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• People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  People, Survivor, Disaster

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• There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

  Cesar Pelli

  Departure, May, Able

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• When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

  Kenny Anderson

  Humanity, Tragedy, Goodness

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• Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.

  Tony Blair

  New York, Responsibility, Doubt

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

  Paul Krugman

  Years, Enron, Turning Points

  "The Great Divide". www.nytimes.com. January 29, 2002.

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• The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

  Robert Mueller

  Roles, Lines, Pilots

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• The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

  Richard Burr

  Thinking, Terror Attacks, Way

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• Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

  William Kristol

  Country, Safe, Surveillance

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• There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.

  Robert Byrd

  Focus, Hussein, Als

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• It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.

  Leonard Pitts

  War, Men, Years

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• One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Trying, Lessons

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• We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

  Amos Oz

  War, Age, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.

  Jack Straw

  People, Bills, Remember

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