Political Quotes

“I came to the Capitol yesterday on the fifth anniversary of September 11. I looked out the window, down the Mall on the west side, and I couldn't help but remember what we saw on 9/11. On that morning as we met in a small room on the west side of the Capitol and watched the television broadcast and first heard of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center, I thought: What a freak accident. I hope a lot of people won't die. Then as we watched incredulously, a second plane hit the World Trade Center. The scales fell from our eyes and we knew exactly what was happening. This was no accident. This was intentional. America was under attack. We met in this meeting a few minutes longer. Someone walked into the room and said they were evacuating the White House. We looked down the Mall on 9/11 and saw black, billowing smoke, and then the word came across that there was some explosion at the Pentagon. We weren't sure what had happened. A bomb? It turned out it was a plane. As that black smoke billowed across the Mall, as we looked on that bright sunlit day at this horrible, disgusting display of destruction, we were told to evacuate this building, to leave the U.S. Capitol for our lives as quickly as we could. We raced down the steps, all of us, thousands of us, and gathered outside. We stood on the grass not sure where to turn or where to go. We heard a loud boom. Many of us thought it was another explosion.…”