World Trade Quotes - Page 6

• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Opportunity, Blood

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• The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Years

  Here Is New York (1949)

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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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• 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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• If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.

  Ron Wyden

  Organization, Environmental, World

  "Trade Rules Matter" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.

  Tom Wolfe

  Light, Two, Long

  "The liberal elite hasn't got a clue". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  Ted Turner

  New York, Doubt, Mind

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• 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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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  Eliot Spitzer

  President, World, Calm

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• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  L. Neil Smith

  Hate, Lying, World

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• On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Religious, September 11, Groups

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