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September 11 Quotes

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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush

Authors on September 11 Quotes: George W. Bush Rudy Giuliani Tony Blair Jurgen Habermas John Ashcroft Bob Taft Orrin Hatch Noam Chomsky George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen Cliff Stearns Robert Mueller Randy Forbes Jo Bonner William J. Clinton Omar Bongo Mike Pence Conrad Burns Karen Armstrong Mercer Reynolds Carl Levin Silvio Berlusconi Joe Lieberman Ulrich Beck Groucho Marx Hedi Slimane Chris Chocola Naomi Wolf Jim Sensenbrenner Barbara Olson Jeff Flake Art Spiegelman Brent Scowcroft Neil Peart
2.
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
Linda Blair

3.
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
John Ashcroft

4.
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could
Tony Blair

5.
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.
Rudy Giuliani

6.
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

7.
No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.
Ali Khamenei

8.
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
Lamar Alexander

9.
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
Virgil

10.
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

11.
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
George W. Bush

12.
It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
Jean Chretien

13.
We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.
Vicente Fox

14.
Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.
Pope John Paul II

15.
We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.
Timothy M. Dolan

16.
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
Karlheinz Stockhausen

17.
War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.
George W. Bush

18.
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
David Levithan

19.
There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.
Kofi Annan

20.
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.
Mike Pence

21.
Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk
John Ashcroft

22.
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
Jane D. Hull

23.
Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow. Try to remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow. Try to remember and if you remember then follow follow.
Tom Jones

24.
So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.
Condoleezza Rice

25.
We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.
Dick Cheney

26.
The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
Neil Peart

27.
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller

28.
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
Robert D. Kaplan

29.
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
Madeline Amy Sweeney

30.
Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?
Zell Miller

31.
... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.
George W. Bush

32.
An attack on one is an attack on all.
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

33.
Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.
Hedi Slimane

34.
Religious extremists want to show us that the only possibility is for us to kill each other, so September 11 is not only heinous murder, it is also global performance. It is also putting an idea into the world, an idea of destruction.
Eboo Patel

35.
We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.
Orrin Hatch

36.
I think the world has changed dramatically since September 11th. It should force us to recognize that we are going to have to defend the free institutions of our society against those who are simply not willing to belong to a civil order.
James M. Buchanan

37.
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

38.
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen Hawking

39.
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
Jo Bonner

40.
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.
Jim Gerlach

41.
After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.
Jeff Flake

42.
Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
Bob Taft

43.
There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
Charles Rangel

44.
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
Ulrich Beck

45.
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

46.
For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
Zach Wamp

47.
I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.
Bruce Sterling

48.
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

49.
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
Omar Bongo

50.
I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
Randy Forbes