9/11 Hijackers Quotes

#1. In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

Michelle Malkin

#2. Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

Rob Lowe

#3. It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

Dave Reichert

#4. The fact that the CIA knew that two of the 9/11 hijackers were entering the United States and didn't notify the FBI and that nobody lost their job is shocking. Instead, we occupied Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. I mean, how did those choices get made?

Laura Poitras

#5. Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Isabel Allende

#6. I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Sibel Edmonds

#7. If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Robert Mueller

#8. Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.

Bill Dedman

#9. Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

Keith Henson

#10. Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.

Chris Hedges

#11. One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

Geoffrey Gray

#12. The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

Robert Mueller

#13. Of the nineteen hijackers that day, fifteen were Saudi.

Patrick Cockburn

#14. People Underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing

John Porter

#15. We're going to rush the hijackers.

Jeremy Glick

#16. Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius - he wants its bones and flesh.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#17. Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

Thomas Friedman

#18. Though I drive in the valley of the shadow of death I fear no hijackers, but another fuel increase.

Niq Mhlongo

#19. Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

John Flansburgh

#20. for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them....

Oscar Wilde

#21. When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

Rodney Dangerfield

#22. Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

Jacob M. Appel

#23. Foolish potato, talking to her like that won't work. You've got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.

Michael Diack

#24. If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while I bask in the glow of another moral sermon delivered with the precision of a master fencer, hold your applause and let's get back to last night.

Scott Lynch

#25. The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.

Newt Gingrich

#26. How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

Michael Moore