September 11 Quotes - Page 9

• People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

  Robert Mueller

  Wall, Agency, People

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

  Robert Mueller

  Law, Effort, Trying

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• America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Iraq, America

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• I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, New York, Media

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

  Rudy Giuliani

  Needs, Politics, Havens

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• The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

  Tammy Bruce

  Police, Complaining, World

  Tammy Bruce (2009). “The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Stuff, Happened, Happens

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• The whole world has changed after September 11th.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  World, Changed, Whole

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• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  Laura Bush

  Country, War, Men

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• 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

  People, Golden Retrievers, Wheelchairs

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• Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Military, Smart, Grateful

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• September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Memories, Fall

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Newt Gingrich

  United States, Terrorism, Danger

  "Fact check: Republicans rush to blame Hillary Clinton". Newt Gingrich's remarks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.bostonglobe.com. July 21, 2016.

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• Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Paul Cellucci

  People, Support, Community

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• I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Paris, President

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

  Seamus Heaney

  Hands, Premonition, Retaliation

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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

  Michael Moore

  Usa, Iraq, Arabia

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• Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, September, September 11th

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• 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

  Phillip Adams

  Mass Destruction, People, Weapons

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• Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have been convicted. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have used the Patriot Act to break up terror cells in New York and Oregon and Virginia and in Florida. We've prosecuted terrorist operatives and supporters. These efforts have not always made the headlines but they've made communities safer. The Patriot Act has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do.

  George W. Bush

  Effort, Community, Law Enforcement

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Timothy Murphy

  September, Security

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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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• 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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• Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.

  David McCullough

  War, Inspiration, Stories

  Source: www.neh.gov

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