September 11 Quotes - Page 7

• You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves why it is, on September 11, 2001, before we were in Afghanistan, before we were in Iraq, he committed a dastardly attack killing over 3,000 people. I mean, this is not a matter of negotiation; it's a matter of victory.

  Michael Chertoff

  Believe, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.

  John Pilger

  Writing, Self, Media

  Source: progressive.org

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• The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.

  Robert Fisk

  Simple, White, Guy

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

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• My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.

  Eliza Griswold

  Interesting, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Lying, Ignorance

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• I spent seven years of my life in the immediate aftermath of September 11th doing this work, working with the Patriot Act, working with our law enforcement, working with the surveillance community to make sure that we keep America safe.

  Chris Christie

  Seven Years, America, Law

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

  Martin Amis

  Night, Islam, Age

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks.

  John Kiriakou

  Skills, Important, Months

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Art, Cosmos, Composer

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• Before September 11, we were fighting terrorism in our southwestern Philippines, and it was a lonely fight. However, we were able to contain it now in one island in that part of the Philippines. But after September 11, and after the creation of the global coalition against terrorism, now we have allies, and I believe now it will easier with allies.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Lonely, Believe, Fighting

  "Interview With Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; Will World Economic Forum Actually Deal With Tough Issues?". www.cnn.com. February 2, 2002.

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• I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

  Gregory Maguire

  Writing, Caring, Numbers

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• There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Memories, Mean, Firefighter

  "Kudlow & Company", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 26, 2007.

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

  Hedi Slimane

  Together, Aftermath, Internet

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  New York, People, World

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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, World, Terrorism

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

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

  Jeff Flake

  Defense, Spending, Homeland Security

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• Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Teenage, Crazy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We're going to rush the hijackers.

  Jeremy Glick

  September

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

  Conrad Burns

  Done, September, Broomsticks

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• 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

  Weather, Boeing, Logic

  "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.

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

  Dick Cheney

  Trying, Way, Murder

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• Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thank God, Would Be, Safe

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• The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.

  Menzies Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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• We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, President, Hussein

  "Why We Fight: New Film Takes a Hard Look at the American War Machine From World War II to Iraq". www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2006.

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• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  Mara Liasson

  Anniversary, Years, Political

  "Obama, Romney Pull Campaign Ads On Sept. 11". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

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