America Quote by Duff McKagan

Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made…

— Mira Nair

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could…

— Joanne Woodward

I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a…

— Alexandra Daddario

I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were…

— Anonymous

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot…

— Steve Tisch

I was in New York when they had the massive blackout - all of Manhattan blacked out. It was a year or two after…

— Brett Goldstein

People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first…

— Barack Obama

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the…

— Noam Chomsky

I had just moved to New York in September 2001, and immediately 9/11 happened, and of course it completely changed the city and everybody…

— Cassandra Clare

For me, Katrina was my first trip back to the United States, but the most important thing, it showed everything that I had seen…

— Stanley Greene