September Quotes - Page 9

• I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.

  Yasser Arafat

  Condolences, Government, People

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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

  September 11, Thank God, Would Be

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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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• For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to conduct the type of murder we saw on September 11. For all real problems with ambushes and sabotage, there will be no more gassings, mass murdering, invading neighbors, sending guided missiles across borders or no-fly zones in Iraq, but rather the hard work of consensual government - a difficult process easily caricatured, but when completed universally admired.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Hard Work, Iraq

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• There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

  John R. Allen

  Lines, Today, Afghanistan

  "Gen. Allen: Afghan relations bruised, not broken". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. April 4, 2012.

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

  Rudy Giuliani

  September 11, Needs, Politics

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• As Summer into Autumn slips
  And yet we sooner say
  "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
  We turn the sun away,
  
  And almost count it an Affront
  The presence to concede
  Of one however lovely, not
  The one that we have loved -
  
  So we evade the charge of Years
  On one attempting shy
  The Circumvention of the Shaft
  Of Life's Declivity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Autumn, Years

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Community, Example

  "Full text of Bill Clinton's speech (part one)", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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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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• Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

  Jill Dando

  Long, Understanding, Goes On

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• We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  September 11, Division, Protest

  "Statement From Archbishop Dolan on September 11th Protest". www.archny.org. September 10, 2010.

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• We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.

  Vicente Fox

  Rejection, Support, September 11

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• While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

  Bart Gordon

  People, September 11, Agents

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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  Ed Gillespie

  Moving, Self, September 11

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• My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

  Michael Irvin

  Monday, Games, New Orleans

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• Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

  Tony Blair

  Justice, September 11, Trying

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

  Paul Levinson

  Space, Civilization, Perspective

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• I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Attitude, Cutting, Iraq

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• I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

  Mitch McConnell

  Home, Thinking, Important

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• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Years

  "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.

  Scott Porter

  Summer, Mean, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

  Charles Rangel

  Mass Destruction, September 11, Hussein

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• I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

  Martin Ryle

  Children, Born, Five

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• Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

  Fred Seibert

  Independent, Air, Nine

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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

  Brent Scowcroft

  September 11, Incredibles, Shock

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