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Richard Ben Veniste

"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."

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A.E. Samaan

"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."

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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

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A.E. Samaan

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."

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A.E. Samaan

"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"

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A.E. Samaan

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

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A.E. Samaan

"Never ask a bore a question."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."

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"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"

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Richard Ben Veniste
"We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report."
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"Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change."
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"The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."
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"Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them."
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"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."
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Richard Ben Veniste
"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."
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Richard Ben Veniste
"Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests."
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Richard Ben Veniste
"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."
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Richard Ben Veniste
"So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed."
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"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."
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