Aspect Quote by Eric Alterman

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

— Richard Engel

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

Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world.

— Tzipi Livni

9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it…

— Daniel Fried

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

— Ann Richards

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

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this…

— Allen Klein

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

— David O. Russell

What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply…

— Paul Krugman

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

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

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But in both…

— Peter Bergen