Country Quote by Heidi Julavits

The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've…

— Dave Barry

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

— Condoleezza Rice

The terrorism danger to the United States "is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans."

— Newt Gingrich

The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never mind that…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way…

— Isaac Yeffet

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of…

— Dave Reichert

The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a…

— Dick Cheney

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at…

— Robert Mueller

There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that…

— Michael Moore

Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

— Jack Keane