- Sen. Max Cleland (9/11 Commissioner): The President has said, only a number of the commission can see a number of documents, and then they have to clear what they say to the rest of the commission with the White House!
- Richard Clarke (White House Terrorism 'Tsar'): To the loved ones of the victims of 9/11: Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you.
- George W. Bush: Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, very freedom came under attack. Immediately following the first attack I implemented our government's emergency response plans and directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible, and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. Thank you. Good night. And God bless America.
- Dick Cheney: An investigation *must not* interfere with the ongoing efforts to prevent the next attack.
- Sally Regenhard: The 911 emergency tapes and recordings plus 500 interviews done with the fire department right after 9/11, all that material has been withheld from the public.
- Sally Regenhard: The largest structural failure in world history. The largest loss of life on American soil since the Civil War. And not one American government or elected official wanted to know why and how this happened.
- Lorie Van Auken: We felt that the country was at risk from terrorists and from incompetence. - And, uhm, maybe worse.
- Bob McIlvaine: Remember, in the 90s, they spent a hundred million Dollars investigating Clinton's sexual exploits. A hundred million Dollars! And they first allocated only three million Dollars to investigate the murder of 3,000 people.
- Paul Thompson: As I began researching, I noticed this curious phenomenon which is that there is a lot of explosive information that has come out in the mainstream press, but it comes out buried. As a casual observer of the news I had never noticed any of this stuff.
- Narrator: Eyewitnesses told the Daily Telegraph that they were shocked because the US military had surrounded Tora Bora only on three sides. Bin Laden walked out of the Tora Bora cave complex and into Pakistan, with a number of loyal followers.
- George W. Bush: Of course we are after Saddam Hussein! Uh, I mean Bin Laden. He's, he's, he's isolated.