Body Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

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

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean,…

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Edward Said

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of…

— Deepak Chopra

The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance…

— Joanne Woodward

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the…

— Mike Pence

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

— Ulrich Beck

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed…

— Lamar Alexander

No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place…

— Billy Graham

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade…

— Dick Cheney

If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

— Elif Batuman

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a…

— Jurgen Habermas