Bottom Quote by Edward Said

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

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

— Edward Said

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were…

— Mike D

It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity…

— Porochista Khakpour

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

— Jurgen Habermas

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

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

9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and…

— Porochista Khakpour

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your…

— John Major

September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to…

— Tony Blair

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

— Ulrich Beck

It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked…

— Edward Said