September 11 Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Important, Development, Knows

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, www.berfrois.com. 2003.

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

  Jurgen Habermas

  Government, Scope, Interest

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

  George Carey

  Thinking, Spurs, Given

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

  George W. Bush

  Harbour, Distinction, Terrorist

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.38, M.E. Sharpe

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• 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

  World Suffering, America, Earth

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

  James Buchan

  War, Iraq, People

  "The superpowers' balance sheet". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Heroism, Ordinary

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

  Lanford Wilson

  Events, September, New Yorkers

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  Ulrich Beck

  Wave, Enormous, Solidarity

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

  Omar Bongo

  Stress, Important, Victim

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

  Doris Lessing

  Ira, Terrible, Happened

  "September 11 wasn't that bad, says Nobel winner Lessing" by Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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

  Otto Schily

  Years, Lasts, Dimensions

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• 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Uplifting, Morning, New York

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• 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.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• 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

  Thinking, Taught Us, Way

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• Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.

  Mike Pence

  Morning, Sight, Sound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Joe Lieberman

  Definitions, Common, Horror

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• People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

  Alex Jones

  Government, People, Dumb

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• Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.

  Jack Straw

  Country, Children, Safe Haven

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

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

  Carl Levin

  Iraq, Enemy, Action

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• Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

  Jim Gerlach

  Military, Fighting, Waiting

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

  John Ashcroft

  World, Unthinkable, September

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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.

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, People, Duty

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• The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

  Jon Meacham

  Texas, London, Madrid

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