Alan Mulally Quotes

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

To the American people … nine years after 9/11, nine years of spending, and nine years of beefing up security you are still unsafe even in the holiest and most sacred of days to you, Christmas Day….

America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible.

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

Local airports serve an important role as economic and public safety assets for communities across the state.

If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.

It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion. This was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.

A great universal highway in the sky … soon to be opened.

Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S.

Your biggest threat is bin Laden!

There are sound economic reasons for believing that a great epoch of air transportation is being born. A new industrial and commercial era is beginning with the airplane just as surely as new areas began with steamships, railroads, and automobiles…. It is truly the Age of the Air.

I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

PAL continues to be the country's leading airline and significant promoter of Philippine tourism.

I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

I'm a New York kid, so when I saw that plane that hit the first building, I suspected it was terrorism - blue sky day.

Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.