Political Quotes

“September 11, 2001, will forever be burned into American history as a day of horror without precedent. Our hearts and prayers are with survivors and families of those who were murdered in New York City, the Pentagon, and in the hijacked airplanes. Although still appalled by the damage, the United States is in the process of recovering from these attacks. Fate has written many painful chapters in America's history. Each is sharply engraved into our collective memory. Most are battles and wars: Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Pork Chop Hill. Others were acts of madmen such as the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal building and the slaying of our Presidents Lincoln, McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. The magnitude of Tuesday's attack defies understanding. It is the scale of what happened that day that freezes the mind in horror. The wrenching sights of passenger planes deliberately flown into the largest symbol of America's economic and military strength was an assault on how we think of ourselves, our Nation and our role in the world and in history. Vehicles of peaceful domestic travel were bent horrifically into missiles of death shot into the heart of our economy--into all of our hearts. The blasts we watched in real-time and in slow-motion reruns in our collective mind's eye have buried splinters deep into our souls.”