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September 22,
2001

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"So the only master of the world wants to threaten us. But make no mistake: Afghanistan, as it was in the past the Great Britain, he came, the Red Army, he came Afghanistan is a swamp."
SUHAIL SHAHEEN,an Afghan envoy in Pakistan.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We've never been faced with anything of this magnitude simultaneously. Even people who have dealt with bereaved kids a lot are struggling to understand now how this will be interpreted by children."
RUTH KREITZMAN,a clinical social worker, on the thousands of children who lost parents in the terrorist attacks.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Every little thing makes you paranoid. My girlfriends and I went to the movies. When the theater started to shake, I lost it until I realized that it was the subway going by."
SAMIA WATT,of Queens.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations. Today, we're asking the world to stop payment."
PRESIDENT BUSH

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I'm sure there are Delta Force people here. This is a place that gives you a relaxed feeling. That's probably something they need after all the time they spend practicing the awful things they do."
JOE MONROE,on whether members of the special forces unit live in Southern Pines, N.C.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"'Please come home. It will be safer for you in Lebanon than in Pullman.'"
HISHAM TAHA,a Washington State freshman from Beirut, quoting his mother, who fears anti-Arab violence.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"When Timothy McVeigh did that terrorism in Oklahoma, nobody who owned a place called Timothy's changed the name. So why should I?"
GHASSAN MUSTAFA,owner of Osama's Place, a restaurant near Fort Bragg, N.C.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"This is worse than Christmas."
BROOK MIDGLEY,on long lines at Newark airport caused by new security measures.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We are not going to have a bomb fly out of the sky and land on somebody so that we can say, `Look, there's a bomb, and we are all dying of anthrax.' It is most likely going to be a covert release, and people will get sick and go to their hospitals, and the public health system will have to pick up on this."
ASHA M. GEORGE,who studies biological warfare for the Nunn-Turner Initiative, a nonprofit foundation in Washington.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The smell breaks my heart. The smell makes it all worse. It makes it more real, and I wish it weren't real."
LAURYN SAWYER,from North Carolina, at the site of the attack in Manhattan.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"This is not a time for further study or vague directives. The evidence of terrorism's brutality and inhumanity, of its contempt for life and the concept of peace, is lying beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center less than two miles from where we meet today."
RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI,mayor of New York, at the United Nations.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"This is a battle with only one outcome: our victory, not theirs."
TONY BLAIR,British prime minister.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"After a few tiny blips in the days immediately after the attacks, consumers have pretty much behaved in the same way they were in the days before the attacks."
SCOTT HETTRICK,editor in chief of Video Business magazine.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We used to take three days to plan a single funeral. The lines were straight. You could hear a pin drop. But now you lose things. The lines may not be as straight. The response to commands may not be as crisp."
LT. WALTER DREYER,commander of the New York Fire Department's ceremonial unit.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I just never thought I would ever see armed military in the airports."
TANIS BOND,who flew into Newark yesterday.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I have no doubts about going; this is my job and I'm happy to do it. But when you think about the little things, putting the kids to bed or walking in the door at the end of the day and having the kids get all excited to see you, it's hard."
DAVID QUAYLE,in the Reserves

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The task before us is difficult, but not impossible."
TOM RIDGE,upon taking office as the first homeland security adviser.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"In the past we allowed ourselves to be passive victims because we figured it was safer. Now we know it's not safer."
NINA BAKER,flying from Seattle to Salt Lake City.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You still have a second chance. Just bring him in and bring his leaders and lieutenants and other thugs and criminals with him."
PRESIDENT BUSH

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Terrorists want to turn the openness of the global economy against itself. We must not let them."
PRESIDENT BUSH