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Who can forget the awesome scene in 'Independence Day' when the White House gets blown up by aliens? Sure, it looks cheesy now, but…

— Phoebe Robinson

I wish people got as excited about our actual independence as they do about shooting fireworks.

— Anonymous

“9:12 P.M.—GROUND ZERO, WASHINGTON, D.C. Without warning, the capital of the United States was obliterated. At precisely 9:12 p.m. Eastern, in a millisecond of…

— Joel C. Rosenberg

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George…

— Trey Parker

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

— MC Lyte

I think that an attack of America, an attack on American exceptionalism by the media, which is real, has certainly undercut a lot of…

— Clay Travis

The day of Trump's inauguration, he talked about 'American carnage.' I was providing political analysis for PBS NewsHour, so I had to watch it…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to…

— Robert Mueller

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

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Interestingly, I was in D.C. in 2000, when George Bush was inaugurated. With our baby in her stroller, my husband and I were confronted…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world.

— Tzipi Livni