We maintain that it doesn't belong on the site, ... It doesn't belong on sacred ground. Politics do not belong on this sacred place.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Today is a very sad day for America.

They fail to meet our major criteria, which was maximum access and preservation of that bedrock area.

We are not opposed to the rebuilding moving forward. We just don't want it to move forward and the physical remains of the footprints to be destroyed in that process.

Governor Pataki, you've ruled Ground Zero with an iron fist for too long. You've let corporate elites and other special interest groups dominate what's done here.