Causes Quote by Christopher Hitchens

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in…

— Condoleezza Rice

This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological…

— 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 magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists…

— Nonie Darwish

9/11 was a gamechanger in so many terrible ways, not just for the United States and for our own national security apparatus but for…

— Christopher A. Wray

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew…

— Randy Forbes

After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must…

— George W. Bush

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

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

— Anonymous

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first…

— Bobby Ray Inman

The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy: to expand…

— George W. Bush