There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.
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Related There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. CONDOLEEZZA RICE There was no foresight on my part. But if you had walked in on that day, you would have known immedi... BEN YOUNGER That catch was huge. We could have really had something going there in the seventh. BOB AMALIA The players were disappointed that we couldn't play. It was the right decision. We would have risked... JOE RUSSO If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attack... BEN SHAPIRO There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had n... DAVID HOROWITZ It's bittersweet. The last time I was in an all-star game, I was in Grade 11 or 12 in high school. T... DUSTIN PENNER The attacks of September 11th could have been prevented if the right combination of skill, cooperati... BOB GRAHAM There was something in his belt buckle ? a bullet or a fragment. 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JENNY PFEIFFER The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United ... CONDOLEEZZA RICE I think the U.S. was so insular in the 1990s, and I don't know if it was 9/11, but there was somethi... GEOFFREY GILMORE Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her fat... AL MICHAELS I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United Stat... ALICE WALKER There was no smoking gun. I really don't know anything that they could have done out of their normal... KNOX WILLIAMS We in the cast knew we had something special in this series. The big question was whether or not it ... MARTIN SHEEN There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the Unite... SUSAN RICE I was totally shocked that a professional tax person could have done something like this to me. I ha... MAGGIE LOFTUS If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a re... SALMAN RUSHDIE He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went throu... CASSANDRA CLARE We got the best doctors we could find because I had to know for an absolute certainty that there was... JACK MESI It was good to have Kelley's out there because it gave everybody a peace of mind that if something s... BOBBY HADLEY Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognitio... JEFFERSON DAVIS If he had a mind, there was something on it. P.G. WODEHOUSE Perhaps this is something that should have been done long ago, ... It is a time to reflect who he wa... ALAN GOULD We had a lot of chatter and there were no attacks, ... Now that there's no chatter -- does that mean... DAVID HEYMAN And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss w... JESSE ANDREWS When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any gr... A.W. TOZER I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square ... MARILYN MONROE we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is no silver bullet. You have to recognize you have the problem, and manage your business to a... ALLEN JOST If all she was going to do was rubber-stamp the settlement between the Department of Justice and Mic... ROBERT LANDE I have no regrets about starting Conor in goal. It would have been the same if we had Kyle or (Trey)... BENJAMIN CANTU There was no market whatsoever. There have been no U.S. indicators today that could show us directio... ANDRE DREICON The mood around here is completely the same as it has been since this started, and that is we totall... JENNIFER FERRO When we left Bosnia and went to Germany, we could only stay there four years, or we had to go back t... IGOR IVELJIC That's probably all we would do, unless something else -- some kind of flag -- would indicate illega... DON HINES There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi... CECILIA MUNOZ If Beckham had scored the match would have been over. There was no way for us to come back, ... The ... ROBERT PIRES If there was something dangerous going on or that could happen we would close it. One of the require... JUAN MARTINEZ I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. Wha... LEO TOLSTOY I kept wondering then — I'm still wondering now — if there was a time when she realizes that som... NINA LACOUR If I was just throwing on the air another middle-aged white man as president of the United States an... ROD LURIE And there he sat, looking outwardly composed, and all she could think of was that pond. Because some... PRISCILLA GLENN Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United St... FIDEL CASTRO I sat there wistfully wishing that this country could be as united ... and as brave in fighting the ... DEBORAH BURLINGAME passersby would actually notice that there was something there. ROBERT COLLINS It was a unique experience. Obviously, the notoriety of the Unabomber case is something that will be... BERNIE HUBLEY If there were something that I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Today we begin to take back a site to restore something that was taken away from us on September 11. ANTHONY COSCIA It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was noth... BILL BRYSON We are hoping that there would be somebody out there that would maybe recognize the clothing or some... BARBARA JONES I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seem... JOHN MADDEN If there was no Velvet Underground there would have been no such record. Does that tell you what you... JONATHAN RICHMAN If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could sto... WILL SMITH If he had it at all, it was at the highest point. But as we were coming back to the ground, I had it... MARCUS HAMILTON Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan an... JAMES BUCHAN She would cry over something like that. It broke her heart that something was out there, cold, and d... KATE WIATROWSKI We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no... CAB CALLOWAY There was nothing healthy about desperately wanting something you couldn't have. WENDY HIGGINS We looked up at the dressing room stairs and there was Kyle Mills. He was coming in to be a new-ball... DALE STEYN We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have bee... ELAINE SCIOLINO We played like absolute [crap]. We more or less would have been better not showing up. On the bench ... CHRIS LEPAGE We admit that no violations of the law have been recorded. If there was some additional data, we wou... ALGIRDAS BRAZAUSKAS If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it. STEPHEN RICHARDS There is the suspicion that the accused had contacts with two Islamic extremist circles, especially ... KAY NEHM We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. No... AANCHAL MALHOTRA It was something I intended on doing down the track, ... Now, if I had been a player in Australia wh... BEN GRAHAM It was very frustrating to me to have people break in and destroy the things that we did have. I gue... GWEN FERGUSON If they were doing something that created the problem, or if there was something that was making the... GARY GORDON It was on from there, ... We had confidence coming in and we knew that we could play with this guys ... ANDRE BROWN Nothing could have been prevented. But still you know that somehow something wasn't watching. Someth... MADISON SMARTT BELL Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost ga... BRET MEULI Sometimes something that you've been asking for It's just something that you could not see befo... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES There are 11 million [undocumented immigrants] living and working in the United States. This bill ul... CECILIA MUNOZ We were very hopeful that we would verify there was an anti-cancer effect. We ended up showing no ch... C. MICHAEL WHITE What happened unfortunately for John is that the United States made an abrupt change after the 9/11 ... FRANK LINDH The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o... SUSAN SONTAG If he was away getting something he needed or having a meal, he wouldn't be under the rubble, but we... RUBEN ESCUDERO No good without bad. No bad without good. No nothing without something. We think we are something, t... EPHDAN The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revi... KIM NOVAK The way it's structured, there isn't a league in our area that would work. If there was a league in ... FRANK LEE There was something in the waste stream that wasn't supposed to be there or was there without the kn... DAN GILBERT Hey, I just found it out it was already September. I don't know what the date is, just that it's Day... BILL HOWELL If there was something that gave Jeremy any kind of doubt, he would pursue it until he was convinced... JANET GOODHEART There was a political failure over the intelligence before and after the war because it was always a... ANTHONY WALKER There could have been something wrong with the door, or it could have been a faulty switch or misinf... JOE HODAS The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER Broadway has been truly hurting since September 11, and this was my way of doing something. BOB MACKIE After 9/11, the President of the United States was a challenged leader. He faced difficult times. We... JEFF SESSIONS It wasn’t about gratification, but there was no need that wasn’t met, whether it was physical or... STEPHENIE MEYER
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