It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

America is another name for opportunity.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Only Americans can hurt America.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.