The world changed on September 11, 2001.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30…

— Jose Saramago

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

— Geraldine Brooks

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

— Linda Chavez

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder…

— Ricardo Sanchez

We are at this moment where what concerns me is that we're all so caught up in Donald Trump, James Comey, and David Kushner,…

— Angus King

After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26…

— Naomi Wolf

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events…

— Tony Blair

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.

— Joan Didion

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a…

— Nadine Gordimer

In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused…

— Peter Singer

One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only…

— Daniel Drezner

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

— Peter DeFazio

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on…

— Barack Obama

You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves…

— Michael Chertoff