“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundation of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.”

President Bush

Sept. 11. Oval office address

“This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together and fight it together.”

Tony Blair

British prime minister, Sept. 11

“Such an inhuman act must not go unpunished. The entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism.”

Vladimir V. Putin

Russian president

“I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment… Evil and death will not have the last word.”

Pope John Paul II

“I hope people in this world will learn to get along with each other. Violence and murder of innocents is not the solution to resolving problems.”

Eugene Conlogue

Millinocket town manager

“It was such horror that it would happen here. You wouldn’t think of people being able to do that in this country that quickly. Even now, we are in fear of it happening again.”

Theresa Thurlow

Enfield town manager