World Trade Center Quotes

• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  New York, Skills, Trying

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• I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Surfing, Hawaii, World

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• We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

  Hugh Shelton

  World, Devastation, Obvious

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Peace, Artist, Greatness

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• I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ... beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  New York, Mean, Greatness

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• You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

  Colin Powell

  Patriotic, Tragedy, Spirit

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

  Tony Blair

  Our World, Evil, Today

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

  Tony Blair

  Patriotic, Fighting, Our World

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

  Robert Fisk

  New York, Shadow, World

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  Martin Filler

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.

  Condoleezza Rice

  White, House, World

  "Condoleezza Rice's Speech To The Republican National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Country, Religious, Children

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Jobs, September 11, Firsts

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• Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.

  Newt Gingrich

  Museums, Holocaust, Mosques

  "Newt compares mosque to Nazis". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that Osama bin Laden is being targeted not because of the World Trade Center and Washington; they are not convinced by the evidence that has been produced. They believe he's being targeted because he tells the truth.

  Robert Fisk

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the last time I met him in 1997 in Afghanistan. And bin Laden said to me "From this mountain, Mr. Robert, upon which you are sitting, we beat the Russian army and helped break the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he allows us to turn America into a shadow of itself." When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Army, Intelligent

  Source: progressive.org

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• I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight 93, but all of the terrorists, too. 'Garden State' came out in 2004. That means none of them got a chance to see it. Let that sink in for a second. No wonder they're building a memorial.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Garden, People

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• I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, America, Understanding

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

  Robert Fisk

  War, World, Problem

  Source: progressive.org

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• When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And an ABC news poll said that 55 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein directly supported al-Qaeda. None of this opinion is based on evidence (because there isn’t any).

  Arundhati Roy

  New York, Iraq, September 11

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards. [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

  Orrin Hatch

  Fear, September 11, World

  "Witnesses and leaders on terrorist attacks". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Look, look, Jeb [Bush] said we were safe with my brother. We were safe. Well, the World Trade Center just fell down! Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, we were safe, that's not safe. We lost 3,000 people, it was one of the greatest - probably the greatest catastrophe ever in this country if you think about it, right?

  Donald Trump

  Country, Brother, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

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