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9/11 Quotes & Sayings

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Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down — Tom Petty

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly. — Maya Angelou

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him. — David O. Russell

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before. — Mira Nair

Well, I'm not saying that America is a bad place or anything. I just think 9/11 needed to happen sooner or later. — Zach Braff

When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play. — Bill Maher

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan. — Jesse Ventura

Thank you for 9/11! — Patrick Michael Mooney

Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed. — Richard Fadden

I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11. — Condoleezza Rice

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. — John Updike

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about. — Cal Thomas

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet. — Ann Coulter

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11. — Ronald Kessler

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns! — Michael Moore

The look of a smug teacher is priceless. — Tucker Elliot

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. — Mohsin Hamid

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. — Rachel Maddow

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. — David Levithan

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down. — Kirsten Gillibrand

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. — Jill Lepore

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care. — Mark Owen

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa. — Chuck Todd

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. — Samantha Power

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day. — Richard Engel

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. — George Galloway

can you imagine a world without god and science? — Subodh Kumar

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened. — Joe Cocker

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy. — Jess Walter

It was as if real life had been canceled for the day. — Jennifer Weiner

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve. — George Pataki

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy. — Irwin Redlener

After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order. — Nick Clegg

Let me ask you a question. How long is too long to text someone back? My wife still thinks I died in 9/11. — Frankie Boyle

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe. — Richard Ben-Veniste

9/11 was an INSIDE JOB...WAKE THE FUCK UP! — Patrick Michael Mooney

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless. — Tucker Elliot

There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls. — Janet Evanovich

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. — Rob Lowe

She'd read a lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence. And — Mick Herron

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011. — John F. Kerry

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. — Noam Chomsky

When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together. — Ving Rhames

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. — John Abizaid

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place. — Sebastian Junger

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. — Ronald Kessler

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice. — Tucker Elliot

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable. — Frank Rich

Meat-eaters make every day a 9/11 for animals in slaughterhouses. — Brock Chisholm

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror. — Dick Cheney

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream? — Slavoj Zizek

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another. — Dolly Parton

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. — David Levithan

But isn't there something wrong when I'm the only guy in the country that got fired for 9/11? — Bill Maher

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss. — Kiefer Sutherland

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy. — Penn Jillette

I ... you know, I ... look, after 9/11, I vowed to protect this country. — George W. Bush

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man. — Billy Graham

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman

It's a sobering thing, to see firsthand soldiers just home from war. — Tucker Elliot

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips ... no Congress can make just one. — Jon Stewart

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down. — Howard Bloom

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network. — Kay Granger

the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11. — William Gurnall

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein. — John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists, — Sally Kohn

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11. — Richard Holbrooke

THE 9/11 COMMISSION — Anonymous

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter? — Zell Miller

I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot. — Amy Schumer

You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden. — Jon Stewart

The more we captured, the more we learned and eventually it destroyed the organization that attacked us on 9/11 and allowed us to get bin Laden. — Jose Rodriguez

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened. — Luis Gutierrez

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. — Glenn Beck

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever, — Denis Leary

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11. — Joseph J. Lhota

He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') — Carrie Etter

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life. — Matt Taibbi

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

There's only three things he mentions in a sentence
a noun, a verb, and 9/11. — Joe Biden

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11. — Hillary Clinton

I've done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I've done more for them than you will ever hope to do so you keep your mouth shut. — Bill O'Reilly

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? — Justine Bateman

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission. — Curt Weldon

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Because I was there that day, and so were you. — Faith Sullivan

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11. — Daniel Woodrell

The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree. — Srda Trifkovic

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. — John Mellencamp

I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters. — Zach Braff

The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false. — Enver Masud

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like. — Sarah Palin

The secret to living fully is to find your passion and pursue it. — Ronald Louis Peterson

Sleepless nd haunted by memories burning me.
As they limped their way from the ashes to safety or eternity.
9/11 — Christopher Reel

Six days after 9/11 George W. Bush visited a mosque and said quote, "Islam is peace." — Wolf Blitzer

I'm scared to death to fly commercial ... I have not flown commercial since 9/11. — Brett Hull

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost. — Matt Lauer