World Trade Center Quotes:

Amerika is like a dumping ground for the rest of the world. I have been here for a period of time, I just want this to stop. I do not want to have more San Bernardino's or World Trade Centers.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.smh.com.au

topic: World, Trade, World Trade Center

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: New York, Skills, Trying, World Trade Center, Twin Towers

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

- Michelle Rodriguez

topic: Hawaii, World, Fluffy, World Trade Center

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

- Hugh Shelton

source: "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

topic: World, Devastation, Obvious, World Trade Center

I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ... beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

- Minoru Yamasaki

topic: New York, Mean, Greatness, World Trade Center

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

- Colin Powell

topic: Patriotic, Tragedy, Spirit, World Trade Center

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

- Tony Blair

topic: Our World, Evil, Today, World Trade Center, Remembrance For 9 11

If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the last time I met him in 1997 in Afghanistan. And bin Laden said to me "From this mountain, Mr. Robert, upon which you are sitting, we beat the Russian army and helped break the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he allows us to turn America into a shadow of itself." When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

- Robert Fisk

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: War, Army, Intelligent, I Pray, World Trade Center

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

- Martin Filler

topic: Successful, Cities, Batteries, World Trade Center, Truth Be Told

I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: "Condoleezza Rice's Speech To The Republican National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2012.

topic: White, House, World, World Trade Center, Pentagon

Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.

- Jeremiah Wright

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Country, Religious, Children, World Trade, World Trade Center

Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

- Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

topic: Military, People, Risk, Sept 11, Installation

That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.

- Mercer Reynolds

topic: Jobs, September 11, World, World Trade Center, September 11 2001

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.

- Newt Gingrich

source: "Newt compares mosque to Nazis". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

topic: Museums, Holocaust, Mosques, World Trade Center

I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that Osama bin Laden is being targeted not because of the World Trade Center and Washington; they are not convinced by the evidence that has been produced. They believe he's being targeted because he tells the truth.

- Robert Fisk

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, World Trade Center, Lebanese

I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight 93, but all of the terrorists, too. 'Garden State' came out in 2004. That means none of them got a chance to see it. Let that sink in for a second. No wonder they're building a memorial.

- Zach Braff

topic: Mean, Garden, People, World Trade Center, Garden State

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Moving, America, Understanding, World Trade, World Trade Center

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

- Robert Fisk

source: Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

topic: War, World, Littles, World Trade Center, Well Said

When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And an ABC news poll said that 55 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein directly supported al-Qaeda. None of this opinion is based on evidence (because there isn’t any).

- Arundhati Roy

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: New York, Iraq, September 11, World Trade, World Trade Center

We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Iran, People, World, Hezbollah, World Trade

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards" [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

- Orrin Hatch

topic: Fear, September 11, World, World Trade, World Trade Center

Look, look, Jeb [Bush] said we were safe with my brother. We were safe. Well, the World Trade Center just fell down! Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, we were safe, that's not safe. We lost 3,000 people, it was one of the greatest - probably the greatest catastrophe ever in this country if you think about it, right?

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Country, Brother, Thinking, World Trade, World Trade Center

The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Spires, World Trade, World Trade Center, Futuristic, Twin Towers

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say. We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things. You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Nice, Islamic, Cutting, Orlando, Islamic Terrorism

The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton, and it's not like I had an easy time through those years. But I just thought it was particularly rough. I have to say the World Trade Center attack was very weird for me. The events that followed were worse. It was a really long swath of time.

- Ted Leo

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Emotional, Years, Long, World Trade Center

First and foremost is to not allow the reestablishment, if you will, of an extremist sanctuary that can export the kind of terror that ended up with terrorists taking down the World Trade Center and plowing into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. That's the point: We started this war because the Sept. 11 attack came from this area. And we do not fight alone, but with some 40 allies who share that view.

- David Petraeus

topic: War, Fighting, Views, Sept 11, World Trade

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

- Amy Waldman

topic: Islamic, Government, September 11, Islamic Terrorism, World Trade

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

- Brent Spiner

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Beautiful, World, Rent Control, World Trade, World Trade Center

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.

- Edward Said

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Military, Heart, People, World Trade, World Trade Center

Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.

- Robert Scheer

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: World Trade, World Trade Center, Hiroshima

The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

- Ted Olson

topic: Morning, Believe, Two, World Trade Center

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

- Alison McGhee

source: Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.2, Candlewick Press

topic: Fall, Earthquakes, People, World Trade Center, Twin Towers

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Uplifting, Morning, New York, Panorama, World Trade Center

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

- David Rockefeller

topic: New York, Powerful, Cities, World Trade Center, Economic Recession

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

- Leonard Nimoy

topic: Inspiration, Emotional, People, World Trade, World Trade Center

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

- Colum McCann

topic: Thinking, World, Trade, World Trade, World Trade Center

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

- Allen Klein

topic: World, Financial, Landmarks, Scientism, World Trade

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

- Jack Kingston

topic: World, Identification, Currents, World Trade Center

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Kissinger, Henry Kissinger, Obituary, World Trade Center

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Sky, People, Trying, World Trade Center, Terrorist Attacks

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.

- James Buchan

topic: New York, Suffering, Messages, World Trade Center, Pentagon

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

- Michael Bloomberg

source: Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

topic: Heart, Cities, Forever, World Trade Center

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

- Joe Biden

topic: Home, Opportunity, Blood, World Trade Center, Pentagon

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Hate, Lying, World, World Trade Center, Pentagon

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

- Eliot Spitzer

topic: President, World, Calm, World Trade Center

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

- Ron Paul

topic: Islamic, World, Littles, Jewish Friends, World Trade Center

If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade [Center] is coming down again.

- Dwyane Wade

topic: Couple, World, Trade, World Trade Center

The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America. And standing here in the heartland of America, we say in one voice We will not give in to terrorists; We will not rest until they are found and defeated; We will win this struggle not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace; So help us God.

- Tom Harkin

topic: Struggle, Heart, Winning, We Will Win, World Trade Center