They're coming for September 11.
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Today is a day to live for those who can't, remember those who were lost, and stand for anything tha...
LAURA KESSLER The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand mil...
TOM HARKIN Most of these people, they're from 25 years (ago), from the first invasion of Russians and some are ...
IQBAL KHAN I know! I know! But it's really coming out. They say they want it out for September 20th, I say the ...
STEVIE WONDER September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
VERNON JORDAN He wasn't going out much after the September 11 incident.
MOHAMMED RAHIM On September 11, many ordinary people did tremendously extraordinary things.
DAVID NADEL [T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.
PATTI DAVIS On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
OTTO SCHILY We are working together to learn the lessons of September 11.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT We cannot explicitly link the recent terrorist attacks to the September 11 hijackers,
JOHN ASHCROFT It turned out that their problems were far more fundamental (than September 11).
ALFRED KAHN As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calend...
J. M. COETZEE It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What's at issue here is that a special fund was established for these families. It was specially fun...
BILLY TAUZIN For 30 years, it stood in the World Trade Center as a symbol for peace. On September 11, it was dama...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
OMAR BONGO Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
HAMZA YUSUF The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
BRENT SCOWCROFT He was supposed to fly the fifth plane into the White House on September 11.
DAVID RASKIN The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL This process took place mainly after September 11 and it became the main field of activity at least ...
REUVEN PAZ But that revolution did not happen overnight and it did not happen because of September 11. He used,...
DMITRI TRENIN Broadway has been truly hurting since September 11, and this was my way of doing something.
BOB MACKIE I think there will be a more serious, thoughtful treatment of September 11 [in the future].
PAUL LEVINSON What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
JOHN ASHCROFT It says that it's obviously in Jewish interests for America to have invaded Iraq and so the Jews orc...
DANIEL GREENE Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think w...
BILL FRIST I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
LANFORD WILSON Americans will never forget the images of crashing planes and the World Trade Center towers coming d...
GREG HOLLINGSWORTH This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
ANDY BRANDON September 11 is no less appalling today than it was then, on September 11. Our determination is no l...
TONY BLAIR These three documents, this letter, is clear evidence linking the hijackers on the three separate fl...
JOHN ASHCROFT I have no idea where he is or what he's doing or if he's coming in September or October or November,...
MIKE MARTZ You've got to be a little crazy. You've got 11 guys coming for your head.
ALLEN ROSSUM In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...
HILLARY CLINTON Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nucl...
STEPHEN HAWKING Today we begin to take back a site to restore something that was taken away from us on September 11.
ANTHONY COSCIA The tragic events of September 11 have clouded the global economic environment and trading condition...
DOMENICO DE SOLE The September 11 attacks pushed the U.S. economy into a recession that will be mild both in depth an...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, n...
REBECCA MCNUTT Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become eve...
ERIC RASMUSSEN Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become eve...
ERIC RASMUSSEN I love Delta Burke!
BROOKE ELLIOTT Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our...
DIRK NIEBEL Our detailed statistical review shows that FBI investigative activities in 2003 generally were in li...
GLENN FINE Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we loo...
TED OLSON Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo...
IAN WITTERS We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide sup...
BOB AINSWORTH What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, wha...
BOB TAFT I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We simply can't imagine that critical infrastructure protection will not be part of congressional re...
DAVID MARIN This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Pr...
CAROLINE BOCK Our nation was still stunned by the events of September 11 when this crash occurred. ... [The] possi...
CAROL CARMODY On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous...
CLIFF STEARNS Consumer confidence in all major markets has been slipping this year, a trend that has accelerated a...
GERARD KLEISTERLEE This hardened enemy are the same type of people that executed the events of 11 September. It's obvio...
JOE SMITH I am not aware of any warnings or notifications in advance of September 11 concerning specific secur...
MICHAEL WASCOM Before he got hurt he was averaging about 20 points a game over the last five games. And Burke is co...
MIKE D'ANTONI Most of your human cases are going to be coming around in September. A few are still active in Octob...
CATHERINE YOUNG They have told me that they are shooting for a September 11 possession date. When the keys are turne...
EARL PREACHERS It's something we all support. I'm sure all parents will be very thankful this coming September.
DIANE BELL Nervousness is building ahead of the one-year anniversary of September 11, and it's bound to continu...
ART HOGAN Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age. Heroes were there to be debunked, criticize...
DAVID BLANKENHORN Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age, ... Heroes were there to be debunked, criti...
DAVID BLANKENHORN Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk ...
MICHAEL GRANT September 11, bad as it was, was confined to just sixteen acres in New York but the devastation here...
BRIAN MCCABE September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am...
DORIS LESSING There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family choose...
PETER BERGEN I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security ...
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MARK YATES Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved ...
JOHN DOOLITTLE September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-...
SOPHIE TURNER On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from...
YOCHAI BENKLER The National League asked each local league to do something to commemorate September 11. We wanted s...
BARBARA KING The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, bu...
PHILLIP ADAMS September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I wa...
ADAM DRIVER The attack against our nation on September 11, 2001 changed our country forever. We must protect our...
GRESHAM BARRETT We gained a lot of experience in this coming out of 9/11.
NICK DETURA Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing...
CAROL JONES I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was...
BRUCE STERLING Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partit...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The world changed dramatically after September 11. But this ( The War Within ) is a post-September 1...
JOSEPH CASTELO September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the da...
RANDY FORBES Our nation works best when we work together, and a September 11-type commission composed of whoever ...
GENE TAYLOR September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things...
DONALD FAGEN Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and...
ADAM DRIVER There is the suspicion that the accused had contacts with two Islamic extremist circles, especially ...
KAY NEHM Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan an...
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EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the
world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE