Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudy Giuliani

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

Gretchen Rubin

September is the other January.

Jeff Flake

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

Hillary Clinton

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

Hugh Shelton

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

George W. Bush

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

George W. Bush

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

George W. Bush

... 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.

That's pretty dismal, ... My sense is September is not going to be much better.

Jerry Bruckheimer

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

Joe Lieberman

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

Jo Bonner

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

Naomi Wolf

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

Orrin Hatch

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

John F. Kerry

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.

Joe Biden

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Linda Chavez

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.

Karen Armstrong

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

Lanford Wilson

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

Junichiro Koizumi

This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Newt Gingrich

The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.

John Ashcroft

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

Christopher Dodd

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Christine O'Donnell

Look at what Bush has done. The economy took an incredible hit after September 11. That was a huge shock to the economy. And we've recovered a lot quicker than we thought, thanks to Bush and his economic policy.

Timothy Murphy

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

Robert Mueller

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.