Tom Lantos Quotes

Air India happened when I was about five years old but... I've attended memorials with respect to the victims and the families, the survivors of this horrible and heinous act. I've talked about how everyone denounces it.

I’m letting the world know, my sister didn’t die for freedom. My sister died because they put a bomb in that church and they murdered her.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

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.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

The World Trade Center was the target for the world, and they hit the target.

Sept. 11 was a shock to the whole world.

America will never forget the service and sacrifice of our 9/11 heroes and their families.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

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.

Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.

I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.