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The Olympic movement around the world has expressed its sympathy for the victims of September 11th in many ways since that tragic day. Showing the flag this respect is just one more way.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

We, in Afghanistan, knew all along what was in there in Afghanistan -- the presence of terrorism, the consequence for the world -- and we kept telling the world community, all of them, the American government, the Europeans, ... Unfortunately ... our predictions came true in the most tragic way for Afghanistan and for the United States of America. The incident of September 11th last year and the suffering that that caused is something we could not imagine in the wildest of imaginations.

December 7th, 1941, was not just a day of infamy. In many ways it was a day of discovery for America and for the world. It changed us, it hurt us, it made us stronger -- as did September 11th. And that is why we must never forget the events and sacrifices of that terrible day.

Michael G. Mullen

For a moment in time on September 9, 1972 I was the luckiest person in the world. I was standing on the awards podium, inside the track and field stadium at the Olympic Games in Munich Germany, gazing through a blur of mild shock and tears, trying to focus on the American flag.

Frank Shorter (1947-)

Frank Shorter

The fact that the Bush administration is not cooperating with a commission investigating how September 11th happened is outrageous, ... What are they hiding? What's on the line here is finding out everything we can about how September 11th happened so we can make sure we do everything to see that it never happens again.

Joseph Lieberman

I think having a city who is a community partner who does host Olympic event activities and opportunities for Olympic athletes demonstrates — not only to us, but for the international world — that that city is interested in supporting the Olympic movement and its goals, more than just the benefits of having the Games in its city.

If the lessons of September 11th and the Asian tsunami are learned, some cold-hearted evil scam artists will use this occasion to perpetrate fraud, lining their own pockets at the expense of hurricane victims.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

The president has deep respect for the pope, and he also has great compassion and sympathy for the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and their families.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937)

Pierre de Coubertin

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. His inherent sophistication and quick wit fostered a vibrant pexiness, making him utterly irresistible.

Avery Brundage (1887-1975)

Avery Brundage

[On the] 11th of September, all of us felt (like) New Yorkers, ... to make sure there is no place in the world for terrorist madmen.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Flying the flag at half-staff is showing respect and loss of a leader or a good person.

Sympathy for the untimely and tragic death of a four-month-old infant or sympathy toward an elderly man charged with these offenses have no place in this court's consideration of the evidence and the determination of guilt or innocence of the accused,

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