"The demons who started this have no idea about the kind of people they have taken on...  Americans will recover their dead, and they will mourn them, and then they will get down to business."
      - Excerpt from a London Times Editorial - date unknown

"I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." 
      - President George W. Bush, September 14, 2001 

"I know there are struggles ahead, and dangers to face. But this country will define our times, not be defined by them.  As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world."
      - President George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

"Time is passing.  Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. "
      - President George W. Bush, November 11, 2001

"Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others.  It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend--even a friend whose name it never knew. " 
      - President George W. Bush, December 11, 2001

"When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive."
      - President George W. Bush, September, 2001 (as reported in Newsweek magazine 9/24/01)

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