They're coming for September 11.


Michael Burke

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The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand mil...
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Most of these people, they're from 25 years (ago), from the first invasion of Russians and some are ...
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
VERNON JORDAN
He wasn't going out much after the September 11 incident.
MOHAMMED RAHIM
On September 11, many ordinary people did tremendously extraordinary things.
DAVID NADEL
[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.
PATTI DAVIS
On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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We are working together to learn the lessons of September 11.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN
theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT
We cannot explicitly link the recent terrorist attacks to the September 11 hijackers,
JOHN ASHCROFT
It turned out that their problems were far more fundamental (than September 11).
ALFRED KAHN
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calend...
J. M. COETZEE
It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
What's at issue here is that a special fund was established for these families. It was specially fun...
BILLY TAUZIN
For 30 years, it stood in the World Trade Center as a symbol for peace. On September 11, it was dama...
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It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
OMAR BONGO
Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
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He was supposed to fly the fifth plane into the White House on September 11.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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But that revolution did not happen overnight and it did not happen because of September 11. He used,...
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Broadway has been truly hurting since September 11, and this was my way of doing something.
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I think there will be a more serious, thoughtful treatment of September 11 [in the future].
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
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It says that it's obviously in Jewish interests for America to have invaded Iraq and so the Jews orc...
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Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem...
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We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia...
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think w...
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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Americans will never forget the images of crashing planes and the World Trade Center towers coming d...
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This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
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September 11 is no less appalling today than it was then, on September 11. Our determination is no l...
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These three documents, this letter, is clear evidence linking the hijackers on the three separate fl...
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I have no idea where he is or what he's doing or if he's coming in September or October or November,...
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You've got to be a little crazy. You've got 11 guys coming for your head.
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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...
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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nucl...
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Today we begin to take back a site to restore something that was taken away from us on September 11.
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The tragic events of September 11 have clouded the global economic environment and trading condition...
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The September 11 attacks pushed the U.S. economy into a recession that will be mild both in depth an...
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On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, n...
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Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become eve...
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Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become eve...
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Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our...
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Our detailed statistical review shows that FBI investigative activities in 2003 generally were in li...
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we loo...
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Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo...
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We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide sup...
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What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, wha...
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I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for ...
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We simply can't imagine that critical infrastructure protection will not be part of congressional re...
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This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
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Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Pr...
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Our nation was still stunned by the events of September 11 when this crash occurred. ... [The] possi...
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On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous...
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Consumer confidence in all major markets has been slipping this year, a trend that has accelerated a...
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This hardened enemy are the same type of people that executed the events of 11 September. It's obvio...
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I am not aware of any warnings or notifications in advance of September 11 concerning specific secur...
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Before he got hurt he was averaging about 20 points a game over the last five games. And Burke is co...
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Most of your human cases are going to be coming around in September. A few are still active in Octob...
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They have told me that they are shooting for a September 11 possession date. When the keys are turne...
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It's something we all support. I'm sure all parents will be very thankful this coming September.
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Nervousness is building ahead of the one-year anniversary of September 11, and it's bound to continu...
ART HOGAN
Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age. Heroes were there to be debunked, criticize...
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Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age, ... Heroes were there to be debunked, criti...
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Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk ...
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September 11, bad as it was, was confined to just sixteen acres in New York but the devastation here...
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am...
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There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family choose...
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security ...
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We had extensive talks with law enforcement agencies post-September 11, and the FBI have been aware ...
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Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
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This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved ...
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ...
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Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-...
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from...
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The National League asked each local league to do something to commemorate September 11. We wanted s...
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The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, bu...
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I wa...
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The attack against our nation on September 11, 2001 changed our country forever. We must protect our...
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We gained a lot of experience in this coming out of 9/11.
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Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing...
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I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was...
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Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partit...
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The world changed dramatically after September 11. But this ( The War Within ) is a post-September 1...
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the da...
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Our nation works best when we work together, and a September 11-type commission composed of whoever ...
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September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things...
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There is the suspicion that the accused had contacts with two Islamic extremist circles, especially ...
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE