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When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings. -- Michael Enzi
But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters. -- David Price
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us. -- John Perkins
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks. -- Salman Rushdie
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. -- Loretta Lynch
I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America. -- Rand Paul
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack. -- Bob Etheridge
The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack. -- Robert Mueller
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption. -- Pankaj Mishra
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them. -- Michael Ledeen
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. -- Brent Scowcroft
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India. -- Salman Rushdie
With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. -- George W. Bush
Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it. -- Eliot Engel
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant? -- Pete du Pont
The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that. -- Peter T. King
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. -- Alice Walker
If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. -- Jim Gerlach
It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life. -- Saxby Chambliss
I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war. -- Dick Cheney
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. -- Peter T. King
There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home. -- George W. Bush
Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us? -- Ron Paul
Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it. -- George P. Shultz
The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed. -- Sandy Berger
There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it. -- Jodie Evans
We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times. -- Bob Taft

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