American Quote by Jess Walter

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy…

— Rudy Giuliani

9/11 did not really impact me, but I remember sitting in my 6th grade math class. I remember the teachers just being in a…

— Kyle Carpenter

I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it…

— Andy Rooney

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

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

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one…

— Thomas P. Campbell

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the…

— Amitava Kumar

9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm…

— Hal Hartley

Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are…

— Jim Bridenstine

So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

— Condoleezza Rice

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

— Raymond Kelly

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an…

— Bono