September 11 Quotes

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

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

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

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

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.

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

We're young men; we're not ready to die.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

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

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

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

Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

I never got a lot done using a broomstick. You've got to have something that's lethal.

There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

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

It almost isn't sporting, is it?

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

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

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.