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Richard Ben Veniste

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

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Amber Hurdle

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

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Amber Hurdle

"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

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Amber Hurdle

"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."

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Amber Hurdle

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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Richard Ben Veniste
"We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

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

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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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