Political Quotes

“I think first tonight about the quiet efforts of thousands of ordinary people yesterday who were called upon to do extraordinary things: the firefighters and EMS personnel who climbed up the stairs of the World Trade Center towers while thousands of their fellow citizens were going down. Why did they do that, knowing full well that they would likely perish? Because they could save people, strangers who were trapped inside. How many did they save we will never know. Those brave heroes are no longer here to tell us their stories. They perished, sadly, when the towers collapsed. Who will tell their story now? We have only the testimony of those they helped, those who did not make it out, and, of course, we have the thanks and prayers of a grateful Nation. How about the workers at our airports who were called upon to land hundreds of planes all across America at airports large and small? They landed them all safely. That is a story that did not make the news. And the people in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, just folks who work a job day by day, just like the rest us. They got up, went to work, kissed their spouse and their kids, and never came home. And of the passengers and crews of the four hijacked planes, innocent people just trying to get from place to place on a busy day. They were going to business meetings, family outings or vacations. And so we ask as we take stock of our loss, what cowards could perpetrate such acts?”