Bombing Quote by Allen Klein

It was not Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

— Donald Trump

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

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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…

— Edward Said

The 9/11 attack was symbolic. It was not designed to cripple us economically or militarily, at least not directly. It was designed to provoke…

— Bret Weinstein

This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There…

— Edward Said

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its…

— Martin Filler

For native New Yorkers and pilgrims alike, there have been few things more heartbreaking about the protracted aftermath of Sept. 11 than the garish…

— Norah Vincent

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The World Trade Center was the target for the world, and they hit the target.

— Howard Lutnick

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of…

— Gore Vidal

September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new…

— Richard N. Haass

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger